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There have been limited prospective clinical studies in pediatrics patients examining the association of the chloride content of intravenous fluids and outcome in DKA. This prospective randomized controlled trial is being performed to compare the duration of acidosis and hospital length of stay in

Fluid therapy is aimed to compensate for fasting which is required for surgery, to meet the ongoing fluid losses and to maintain electrolyte balance during surgery. Fluid deficit of a healthy child who is not fed parenterally may be estimated by multiplying hourly maintenance requirement for fluid

During surgery high blood glucose levels, termed hyperglycemia, are commonly encountered due to the physiological stress. Hyperglycemia has been associated with complications such as surgical site infections, adverse cardiovascular and pulmonary events. Optimal glucose control targeted at preventing

Japanese encephalitis (JE) is the most important epidemic encephalitis worldwide, causing approximately 35-50,000 cases and 10-15,000 deaths annually. Half of the survivors have severe neuropsychiatric sequelae, posing a large socio-economic burden on communities that can ill afford it. JE virus

Patients: This study will be conducted in the surgical intensive care unit (SICU) at Yale New Haven Hospital in a prospective observational fashion. As this is a pilot study to determine the accuracy of CGM in our patient population we have based our enrollment projection to complete the study

ABT-510: In the early 1990s, thrombospondin (TSP-1) was first recognized as an endogenously produced inhibitor of angiogenesis. Since then, thrombospondin has been shown to inhibit neovascularization and tumorigenesis in numerous mouse models. Its anti- angiogenesis properties have been localized to

OBJECTIVES Primary Objective To investigate whether combination therapy of high dose oral N-acetylcysteine NAC) and intravenous (IV) sodium bicarbonate can further reduce incidence of contrast induced nephropathy (CIN) in patients with baseline renal impairment undergoing elective percutaneous

PROTOCOL Prevention of Contrast Nephropathy by Sodium Bicarbonate Versus Sodium Chloride and N-Acetylcysteine Nephrology and Cardiology Services, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem 1. Background and rationale The development of acute renal failure following cardiac catheterization has been