Andrew Lake

Risks of Intravenous Fluid Therapy by First Year Residents – A Prospective Study

Nicola Scott, Jonathan Squibbs, Andrew Lake & Arpan Guha · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2016

Aims: Intravenous fluid prescriptions are common in hospitals and most are written by junior doctors. Despite the frequency in which clinicians prescribe IV fluids, the burden from mortality and morbidity related to IV fluids is huge with an estimate that 1 in 5 patients are harm...