The recommendations in this guideline represent the view of NICE, arrived at after careful consideration of the evidence available. This guideline was previously called intravenous fluid therapy in adults in hospital.
PRACTICAL GUIDELINES ON FLUID THERAPY PDF UPDATE
We will not update the guideline at this time. We checked the impact of the SMART and SALT-ED trials on this guideline in June 2020.
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