• Simon Finfer, Sharon Micallef, Naomi Hammond, Leanlove Navarra, Rinaldo Bellomo, Laurent Billot, Anthony Delaney, Martin Gallagher, David Gattas, Qiang Li, Diane Mackle, Jayanthi Mysore, Manoj Saxena, Colman Taylor, Paul Young, John Myburgh, and PLUS Study Investigators and the Australian New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group.
• From the George Institute for Global Health and the University of New South Wales (S.F., S.M., N.H., L.B., A.D., M.G., Q.L., J. Mysore, M.S., C.T., J. Myburgh), the Malcolm Fisher Department of Intensive Care, Royal North Shore Hospital (N.H., A.D.), the Northern Clinical School (A.D.) and the Central Clinical School (D.G.), University of Sydney, the Intensive Care Unit, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (D.G.), the Department of Intensive Care, St. George Hospital (M.S., J. Myburgh), and the Intensive Care Unit, Bankstown Hospital (M.S.), Sydney, and the Intensive Care Unit, Austin Hospital (R.B.), the Department of Intensive Care, Royal Melbourne Hospital (R.B.), the Department of Critical Care, University of Melbourne (R.B., P.Y.), and the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University (R.B., P.Y.), Melbourne, VIC - all in Australia; the School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London (S.F.); and the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand (L.N., D.M., P.Y.) and the Department of Intensive Care, Wellington Regional Hospital (L.N., P.Y.) - both in Wellington.
• N. Engl. J. Med. 2022 Mar 3; 386 (9): 815826815-826.

BackgroundWhether the use of balanced multielectrolyte solution (BMES) in preference to 0.9% sodium chloride solution (saline) in critically ill patients reduces the risk of acute kidney injury or death is uncertain.MethodsIn a double-blind, randomized, controlled trial, we assigned critically ill patients to receive BMES (Plasma-Lyte 148) or saline as fluid therapy in the intensive care unit (ICU) for 90 days. The primary outcome was death from any cause within 90 days after randomization. Secondary outcomes were receipt of new renal-replacement therapy and the maximum increase in the creatinine level during ICU stay.ResultsA total of 5037 patients were recruited from 53 ICUs in Australia and New Zealand - 2515 patients were assigned to the BMES group and 2522 to the saline group. Death within 90 days after randomization occurred in 530 of 2433 patients (21.8%) in the BMES group and in 530 of 2413 patients (22.0%) in the saline group, for a difference of -0.15 percentage points (95% confidence interval [CI], -3.60 to 3.30; P = 0.90). New renal-replacement therapy was initiated in 306 of 2403 patients (12.7%) in the BMES group and in 310 of 2394 patients (12.9%) in the saline group, for a difference of -0.20 percentage points (95% CI, -2.96 to 2.56). The mean (±SD) maximum increase in serum creatinine level was 0.41±1.06 mg per deciliter (36.6±94.0 μmol per liter) in the BMES group and 0.41±1.02 mg per deciliter (36.1±90.0 μmol per liter) in the saline group, for a difference of 0.01 mg per deciliter (95% CI, -0.05 to 0.06) (0.5 μmol per liter [95% CI, -4.7 to 5.7]). The number of adverse and serious adverse events did not differ meaningfully between the groups.ConclusionsWe found no evidence that the risk of death or acute kidney injury among critically ill adults in the ICU was lower with the use of BMES than with saline. (Funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia and the Health Research Council of New Zealand; PLUS ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT02721654.).Copyright © 2022 Massachusetts Medical Society.

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