• Nursing times · Mar 2004

    Advantages and disadvantages of colloid and crystalloid fluids.

    • Sharon Pryke.
    • Nuffield Hospital, Ipswich.
    • Nurs Times. 2004 Mar 9;100(10):32-3.

    AbstractPlasma volume expanders--crystalloid, colloid, or a mixture of both--are used as fluid replacement in patients who have postoperative hypovoloaemia. Despite numerous clinical trials there is little evidence that either classification of plasma volume expander is more beneficial to mortality than the other.

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