Rethinking Fluids - Replacement, Maintenance, Overload and Tolerance with Dr Alexandra Pfaff

Here we discuss how best to use fluid therapy in our critical patients – specifically, the concepts of fluid stewardship, hidden fluids, replacement versus maintenance fluids, sodium load and when fluid overload can happen. Dr Alexandra Pfaff has been building a fluid stewardship team and recently authored a study entitled: Retrospective Evaluation of Risk Factors and Outcome in Dogs With and Without Fluid Overload During Hospitalization in the journal of veterinary internal medicine. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jvim.70132 The International Fluid Academy https://www.fluidacademy.org/