209 Inns and outs of intravenous fluids 7 Questionsy All Nurses % (N=279) Nurses teaching hospitals % (n=178) Nurses university hospital % (n=87) Nurses general hospital % (n=14) All Prescribers % (N=25) Prescribers teaching hospitals % (n=14) Prescribers university hospital % (n=9) Prescribers general hospital % (n=2) P-values 11.What infusion fluid is preferred for dialysis patients? .531 Lactated Ringer’s solution 58.8 (164) 54.5 (97) 77.8 (59) 57.1 (8) 52.0 (13) 57.1 (8) 55.6 (5) 0 Sodium chloride 0.9% 17.9 (50) 18.5 (33) 12.6 (11) 42.9 (6) 28.0 (7) 28.6 (4) 22.2 (2) 50 (1) No preference 23.3 (65) 27.0 (48) 19.5 (17) 0 20.0 (5) 14.3 (2) 22.2 (2) 50 (1) 12.A patient’s planned surgery is postponed to 15:00, current time is 11:00. The patient receives a keep-the-vein-open infusion, and has been fasting since midnight. What do you think is the best intervention? .436 Give a glass of water up to 2 hours before surgery 19.7 (55) 24.7 (44) 11.5 (10) 7.1 (1) 12.0 (3) 7.1 (1) 22.2 (2) 0 Do not change the infusion rate 19.0 (53) 22.5 (40) 13.8 (12) 7.1 (1) 32.0 (8) 42.9 (6) 22.2 (2) 0 Increase the infusion rate to prevent dehydration 59.1 (165) 50.6 (90) 72.4 (63) 95.7 (12) 56.0 (14) 50.0 (7) 55.6 (5) 100 (2) Stop the infusion to prevent decompensation 2.2 (6) 22.2 (4) 2.3 (2) 0 0 0 0 0 Y All questions are about the intravenous fluid therapy WITHOUT addition of medication. This concerns intravenous fluids such as glucose 5%, sodium chloride 0.9%, lactated Ringer’s solution, glucose 2.5%/sodium chloride 0.45%, gelofusine, mannitol, voluven. All statistical tests were performed to assess the difference between All nurses and All prescribers. All tests had to be performed with the 2-sided Fisher’s exact test (good versus wrong answers), except for the one indicated with &, which was performed with the Chi2-test (all answers). a) indicates the correct answer, this was not the order of the answers in the actual questionnaire, the order is shown in Supplement 1. Abbreviations: eGFR - estimated glomerular filtration rate; NPO - Nill-by-mouth
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTk4NDMw