San Francisco—Day-of-surgery administration of 6 L or more of intraoperative fluid is associated with perioperative morbidity across a variety of measures, according to a database analysis by a multicenter research team. In addition, the analysis concluded that the primary driver of fluid administration levels was hospital practice, and not patient- or disease-based factors.
“The anecdotal experience that many of us have seen in the field is actually showing up in the data,”