Saline intravenous fluids are as effective as more costly solutions in treating intensive care patients and keeping them alive, Australian researchers report. "Just about every patient admitted to the ...

Using a crystalloid solution during surgery was better than saline for improving deceased donor kidney transplant outcomes, according to the BEST-Fluids trial. Compared with standard saline IV fluids, ...

U.S. President Trump and U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kennedy attend a press conference, in Washington (Reuters) -A shortage of intravenous and injectable saline solutions in the ...

image: A new study by researchers at Intermountain Healthcare finds there may be a better and safer treatment option for emergency department and hospital patients than saline solution, which is used ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Boris Horvat / AFP / Getty Images The Australian Medical Association has warned that the ...

A U.S. shortage of saline intravenous (IV) solution is causing some dentists to postpone oral surgeries. The shortage is also causing hospitals to carefully manage supplies of saline IV bags, a ...

ORLANDO, Florida — Using a low-chloride, balanced crystalloid solution for all intravenous (IV) fluids received by patients who received a deceased donor kidney transplant resulted in significantly ...

(AP) – New research calls into question what’s in those IV bags that nearly every hospitalized patient gets. Using a different intravenous fluid instead of the usual saline greatly reduced the risk of ...

Shortages of intravenous fluids, worsened by Hurricane Helene damage at Baxter's Marion, North Carolina, manufacturing plant, are expected to continue for months, although allocations to customers and ...

The Australian Medical Association has warned that the health system could "come to a grinding halt" amid a global unprecedented shortage of intravenous fluid. The association's president, Professor ...