THE fact that the colloid osmotic pressures exerted by the body fluids of marine animals arrange themselves in the order of their phylogenetic development 1, suggested that there exists a definite ...

Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 359, No. 1782, Interactions, Structure and Phase Behaviour of Colloidal Dispersions (May 15, 2001), pp. 939-960 (22 ...

Starch-based intravenous (IV) fluids used by the NHS to treat seriously ill patients are causing unnecessary deaths, according to a new Cochrane systematic review by researchers at the London School ...

What are starch-based colloid fluids and how do they differ from saline-based crystalloid fluids? Saline is just salty water, whereas colloids are solutions that have large molecules in them. In this ...

According to a new Cochrane systematic review by researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, starch-based intravenous (IV) fluids used by the NHS to treat seriously ill patients ...

Researchers have written to senior health officials warning them that starch-based IV fluids used "widely" across the health service increase patients' risk of death. Healthcare providers should stop ...

Starch-based IV fluids used by the NHS to treat seriously ill patients are causing unnecessary deaths, according to a new Cochrane systematic review by researchers at the London School of Hygiene & ...

Fluid replacement therapy (intravenous infusion of fluid) attempts to reverse the effects of hypovolaemia by increasing circulatory blood volume and blood pressure back towards normal, in order to ...