The management of fluid and electrolytes in the extremely low birth weight infant is an ongoing challenge during the first week of life. Each infant is different in their fluid and electrolyte ...

The amount of intracellular fluid can be taken as a measure of cell mass (body solids) so that increasing ICF volume indicates cell growth (TBW-ECW = ICW). Singhi and coworkers [60] showed a ...

All types of fluids lost contain electrolytes in varying quantities, so fluid loss is always accompanied by some degree of electrolyte loss. This is referred to as silent dehydration ...

If the sweat sesh lasts long enough or you’re sweating profusely enough and you start to become dehydrated, you’ll want to ...

Researchers have discovered that the risk of severe hyponatremia, a dangerous electrolyte imbalance ... and regulate fluid balance in and around our cells. The study was conducted by linking ...

“I was listening to a lecture on smart fluids and was so captivated by these extraordinary materials that I began experimenting with them at a lab scale,” he says. As he delved ...

Thickened fluids are a common treatment for people who have difficulty swallowing drinks. Drinks may be thickened naturally, like smoothies, or with commercial gum-based or starch-based powders or ...

Fluids are amorphous substances, mostly liquids or gases, that flow under an applied shear stress and have the tendency to assume the shape of their container. Axisymmetric sessile liquid drops ...

Rural doctor Zhao Jianhua (center) and Zhao Gang (left) check the blood pressure of a villager on her doorstep in Napo county, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, in March 2021. ZENG YIMING/XINHUA ...

The national IV fluid shortage has hit at least one hospital in Boston, which is deferring some non-urgent elective procedures. Mass General Brigham says it is delaying some non-urgent elective ...