Ensuring a normal fluid rate and refraining from administering
fluid boluses to combat hypotension are good rules to follow with pediatric patients.2 The American Animal Hospital Association and the American Association of Feline Practitioners have published excellent fluid therapy guidelines for all patients (BOX 2).4
Not exact matches
For the baby with low tone or with swallowing difficulty, slowing the flow allows them a longer period of time to coordinate a safe swallow and to completely clear the oropharynx of
fluid before another
bolus accumulates, reducing the likelihood of aspiration.
«As scientists, we already knew that male butterfly ejaculates were three-fold complex structures we call spermatophores — composed of an outer envelope, an inner matrix of
fluids and a
bolus of sperm,» says UC's Morehouse.
The stomach uses its very strong musculature to convert the mass of food that we swallowed from a
bolus (a soft mass of chewed food) into chyme (pulpy acidic
fluid).
Patients presented as an emergency often require immediate intravascular expansion in the form of crystalloid
boluses, or large volumes of crystalloid
fluids.