Intravenous fluid administration affects both macrocirculation and microcirculation, but hemodynamic coherence may be lost in disease states like sepsis, meaning macrocirculatory improvements do not always translate to microcirculatory recovery.
This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2018. Other selected articles can be found online at https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/annualupdate2018 . Further information about the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is available from http://www.springer.com/series/8901 .
Bennett et al. (Tue,) conducted a review in Critical illness and shock. Intravenous fluid administration was evaluated. Intravenous fluid administration affects both macrocirculation and microcirculation, but hemodynamic coherence may be lost in disease states like sepsis, meaning macrocirculatory improvements do not always translate to microcirculatory recovery.