Finding the Right Balance

When I was a young resident in the 1990s, surgical patients received so much intravenous saline on the day of surgery that they often gained 4 to 6 kg, and by postoperative day 2 or 3, pulmonary congestion and cardiac arrhythmias were commonplace. That was the basis for a 2003 trial of restrictive…

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