-
Intensive care medicine · Jan 1982
Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical TrialThe significance of colloid osmotic pressure measurement after crystalloid and colloid infusions.
- R Grundmann and H Meyer.
- Intensive Care Med. 1982 Jan 1;8(4):179-86.
AbstractColloid osmotic pressure (COP) was followed postoperatively in 55 randomized patients. After minor operations and short-term infusion therapy only small changes of the COP could be observed and it was concluded that after such operations COP measurement is unnecessary. After major surgical interventions, however, COP measurement gave valuable hints. It was shown that even in the case of moderate blood loss replaced by crystalloids an abnormally low COP did not occur. The same applied also to preoperative hemodilution. It was unnecessary to substitute the withdrawn blood with a colloid solution. In addition, COP measurement helped to avoid expensive albumin administrations, and indicated colloid overload in cases of pulmonary edema.
Notes
Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
- Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as
*italics*,_underline_or**bold**. - Superscript can be denoted by
<sup>text</sup>and subscript<sub>text</sub>. - Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines
1. 2. 3., hyphens-or asterisks*. - Links can be included with:
[my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com) - Images can be included with:
 - For footnotes use
[^1](This is a footnote.)inline. - Or use an inline reference
[^1]to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document[^1]: This is a long footnote..