What is your approach to IV fluid management for the treatment of hypercalcemia of malignancy?
Is there an advantage between saline or LR?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
At this point, I believe one can use either saline or lactated Ringer's. There is some evidence that low chloride-containing solutions have advantages in general, which may well be the case, but we need more data on that. The amount of calcium in LR is very little and should not make a differenc...