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- J L Tong.
- Military Reader in Anaesthesia, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine. j.l.tong@bham.ac.uk
- J R Army Med Corps. 2008 Mar 1;154(1):31-3.
AbstractThis study was designed to identify the most effective underbody position when using the patient's own body weight as an infusion device. Twenty volunteers had an air-less 500 ml bag of saline located at various under-body positions. Mean pressures and flow rates through a 14G cannula were measured in vitro at room temperature. Locating the fluid bag at the buttock cleft delivered the highest mean flow rate at 135 ml/min. This underbody position may provide flow rates sufficient to achieve the clinical aim of fluid resuscitation in the military pre-hospital environment.
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