{"id":267,"date":"2020-12-11T05:48:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T05:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/?p=267"},"modified":"2020-12-17T05:59:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T05:59:54","slug":"intravenous-fluids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/intravenous-fluids\/","title":{"rendered":"Intravenous fluids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Intravenous_fluids\/\">Intravenous fluids<\/a> CPG has been updated with a full overhaul as part of our suite of hydration CPGs.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"key-points\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The Key points for the CPG are<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-286 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/files\/2020\/12\/IV-fluids-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/files\/2020\/12\/IV-fluids-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/files\/2020\/12\/IV-fluids-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/files\/2020\/12\/IV-fluids.jpg 459w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 143px) 100vw, 143px\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Whenever possible, the enteral route should be used<\/li>\n<li>In most situations, the preferred fluid type is sodium chloride 0.9% (with glucose 5% +\/- potassium for maintenance fluid)<\/li>\n<li>Most sick children will retain water and require less than full maintenance fluids<\/li>\n<li>Serial weights are the best measure of acute changes in fluid status<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other significant updates to the CPG include<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For children with &gt;5% dehydration, the rehydration approach is to replace 5% in the first 24 hours and the remainder over the following 24 hour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Intravenous fluids was an existing Victorian CPG and will be considered for PIC endorsement on 26 November. The revision was discussed by the CPG committee on 15 July 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Intravenous fluids CPG has been updated with a full overhaul as part of our suite of hydration CPGs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11797,28,9503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individual-cpg-posts","category-news","category-newsletter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}