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REBEL Core Cast – DKA: Beyond the Basics Part 2 – SCOPE DKA-Trial

Managing diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) requires careful consideration of fluid therapy, especially in severe cases. In part two of our REBEL Cast DKA series, we shifted from insulin strategies to fluid choice in severe DKA, diving into the SCOPE-DKA trial—a cluster, ...

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Endocrine, Metabolic, Fluid, and ElectrolytesResuscitation

SCOPE-DKA: Normal Saline vs Plasmalyte in Severe DKA

Background Information:  Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) is a life-threatening complication of diabetes that we frequently encounter in both the emergency department (ED) and intensive care unit (ICU). While intravenous fluid replacement remains one of several cornerstones of therapies, much debate exists ...

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Endocrine, Metabolic, Fluid, and ElectrolytesResuscitation

REBEL Core Cast 26.0 – Lactated Ringers

Take Home Points When compared to 0.9% saline, lactated ringers is a more balanced solution and more closely resembles our serum. SALT ED and SMART trials show normal saline may increase the occurrence of major adverse kidney events in comparison ...

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Endocrine, Metabolic, Fluid, and ElectrolytesResuscitation

Does Lactated Ringers (LR) Raise Serum Lactate?

Background: Serial lactate measurements is a common core measure that we follow in septic shock resuscitation. A number of readers have written in enquiring about whether resuscitation with lactated ringers instead of 0.9% saline would lead to increases in serum lactate.   ...

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Endocrine, Metabolic, Fluid, and Electrolytes

Rebellion in EM 2019: What the Fluid? Wieters vs Bryant

Normal saline started being used based on work done in the 1830s with cholera.  We are still doing the same thing the same way and it’s not until recently we have begun to ask the hard questions about why we ...

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Endocrine, Metabolic, Fluid, and Electrolytes

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