Intravenous fluid therapy: a multi-national, cross-sectional survey of common medical student resources.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Inappropriate prescription of intravenous fluid therapy is highly prevalent in hospitals, with up to 1 in 5 patients suffering from preventable, additional morbidity. Since trainee physicians are frequently responsible for prescribing intravenous fluids, it is possible that common medical student resources do not sufficiently cover the topic. There is a paucity of recent literature on this issue, which this study was designed to address.

Methods

Two original evaluation tools were created by the authors to evaluate reference books, official guidelines, and online reference sources commonly used by medical students in the United States of America, Australia, and the United Kingdom on their coverage of foundational and clinically relevant principles of intravenous fl

SUBMITTER: Ding JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9195194 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature