Multicountry survey of emergency and critical care medicine physicians' fluid resuscitation practices for adult patients with early septic shock.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Evidence to guide fluid resuscitation evidence in sepsis continues to evolve. We conducted a multicountry survey of emergency and critical care physicians to describe current stated practice and practice variation related to the quantity, rapidity and type of resuscitation fluid administered in early septic shock to inform the design of future septic shock fluid resuscitation trials.

Methods

Using a web-based survey tool, we invited critical care and emergency physicians in Canada, the UK, Scandinavia and Saudi Arabia to complete a self-administered electronic survey.

Results

A total of 1097 physicians' responses were included. 1 L was the most frequent quantity of resuscitation fluid physicians indicated they would administer at a time (46.9%, n=499). Most

SUBMITTER: McIntyre L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4947761 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature