Talk:Lactated Ringer's solution

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If 55mL/hr/kg is administered to a 50 kg (110 lb) woman, then she is getting 2.75 liters (L) per hour, 66 liters per day. Are you sure 55mL/hr/kg is correct information? -- 06:34, 1 February 2006 65.30.87.61

[edit] Accuracy of statement

This phrase:

total fluid volumes are greater in athletic individuals than in obese people of the same weight

Seems vague. It implies that athletic and obese are mutually exclusive opposites. I think it should be changed, but not being familiar with the subject matter, I'm not sure whether 'athletic/sedentary' or 'muscular/high fat' or something else? Anchoress 01:24, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

I am not involved with this page but the wording seems quite good to me. Since the contrast is between two individuals of the same weight, one with a high muscle composition and the other with a high fat proportion, athletic and obese makes it quite clear. To my mind, clearer than sedentary which describes a lifestyle, not a body mass proportion. And high-fat is just silly when obese is clear. Steve Rapaport (talk) 10:22, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Compound Sodium Lactate

Values per litre, given by Baxter Healthcare Ltd for their product "Compound Sodium Lactate Intravenous Infusion BP (Hartmann's Solution)":

Sodium 131 mmol

Potassium 5 mmol

Calcium 2 mmol

Chloride 111 mmol

Lactate 29 mmol

So, as you say, not quite the same as Lactated Ringer's although widely regarded as the same thing. Interesting medical-cultural difference between US and UK (or is it US and Europe?). How did this arise - is it solely because the British Pharmacopoeia came up with a specification? Any clinical significance, do you think? Moletrouser 09:20, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Citation Needed on consternation in ER staff

This is obviously from personal experience. Anyone who has worked in an ER/ED knows that paitents often do "silly" things, much to the chagrin of the staff. This is an example, which is quite typical. It's one of those "What the hell is he doing?!" moments. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.165.126.103 (talk) 16:01, 4 November 2007 (UTC)