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Sorry it's taken so long to get back to you on this.
I'd run across some of these trials before during searches, and perhaps I need to take a closer look at them, as I'm not sure I'm convinced about them. Perhaps more tellingly, neither are the designers of the Resuscitation Outcome Consortium trials on HS and HSD. I'm no statistician, and I didn't even stay at a Holiday Inn last night (just the econolodge in Edmonton for the past 6 months ;D) but if there was an adequate body of evidence that showed these treatments to be harmful to the trial population there wouldn't be the ongoing trials.
Now, I'm not saying these are the be all and end all of resus fluids, but as I've said before on here and in other venues, we don't know, and until we conduct some really well designed trials with a very large sample population, we won't. I guess the only thing to say is that the jury is still well and truly out on this, but there's lots of military and civi health care professionals awaiting the verdict with baited breath.
I'd run across some of these trials before during searches, and perhaps I need to take a closer look at them, as I'm not sure I'm convinced about them. Perhaps more tellingly, neither are the designers of the Resuscitation Outcome Consortium trials on HS and HSD. I'm no statistician, and I didn't even stay at a Holiday Inn last night (just the econolodge in Edmonton for the past 6 months ;D) but if there was an adequate body of evidence that showed these treatments to be harmful to the trial population there wouldn't be the ongoing trials.
Now, I'm not saying these are the be all and end all of resus fluids, but as I've said before on here and in other venues, we don't know, and until we conduct some really well designed trials with a very large sample population, we won't. I guess the only thing to say is that the jury is still well and truly out on this, but there's lots of military and civi health care professionals awaiting the verdict with baited breath.