Intravenous fluid mismanagement: time for national stewardship and quality improvement
Andrew Breen, Ashley Miller, Alan Timmins, Greg Barton, Justin Kirk-Bayley, Marcus John Edwards Peck, Huw John Davis, Jonathan Wilkinson · 2025
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Description
Eight clinicians, led by Andrew Breen, wrote a 2025 call for tighter control of fluids given by drip into a vein in United Kingdom hospitals. National guidance on safe fluid care came out in 2013 and was updated in 2017, yet poor prescribing still harms patients. The authors argue that fluids need the same care and checks as other drugs.
Poor fluid care can leave patients with too much fluid, too little fluid, or the wrong salt levels, and each harm adds cost. The team sets out harms in plain terms and links them to daily ward choices. With world shortages of drip fluids in mind, they urge steady national oversight so good habits hold across hospitals.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Andrew Breen, Ashley Miller, Alan Timmins, Greg Barton, Justin Kirk-Bayley, Marcus John Edwards Peck, Huw John Davis, Jonathan Wilkinson |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |