A new way to monitor and individualize your fluid therapy plan
A new way to monitor and individualize your fluid therapy plan
Recent findings point to new ways to monitor fluid therapy
perioperatively and to gear fluid therapy protocols to each
individual animal. Feb 01, 2013  In this final article of the
series, I discuss advances in monitoring fluid therapy, and I
describe a more individualized and goal-directed approach to
tailoring intravenous fluid therapy based on an animal's needs
before, during, and after surgery.   Traditional methods for
monitoring perioperative intravenous fluid administration are
not reliable.1 Other than increases in postoperative body
weight, there have been few accurate indicators of excessive
fluid administration.2 Traditional static methods for monitoring
fluid therapy, such as central venous pressure (CVP),
ventricular end diastolic pressure, and pulmonary capillary
wedge pressure, have been shown to be unreliable and generally
late indicators of changes in blood volume, f