All plasma expanders exert metabolic effects – either favorable effects such as correction of hypovolemia-induced lactic acidosis or renal failure, or unwanted adverse effects such as hypotonic ...

Standards of practice should be established for postoperative IV solutions used to hydrate patients—particularly children. The standards should acknowledge that the administration of solutions with ...

A method has been developed to obtain synchronous populations from a human cell line which previously resisted the use of the selective harvest technique. A concentration of Colcemid was determined ...