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What is your approach to volume resuscitation in patients who are third spacing fluids?

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Hospital Medicine · Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

In patients with significant third-spacing (e.g., due to capillary leak in sepsis, severe pancreatitis, hypoalbuminemia, etc), we prefer balanced crystalloids (e.g., Lactated Ringer’s) as the first-line fluid for initial resuscitation in hypovolemic or septic shock with third-spacing. Typical initia...

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