Paediatric Surgery fluid balance - part 1

Prescribing fluids in paediatric surgical patients can be daunting. This podcast tells you easy to remember ways of recognising the degree of fluid loss, why signs like diastolic hypertension are important and a method of calculating how much fluid to prescribe whatever the age of your patient. David Keily talks to Shalinder Singh about dehydration, on going fluid loss and maintenance fluids in children. After this podcast you will never be daunted again.
David Keily is a trainee in Paediatric Surgery in the East Midlands of the UK, and Shalinder Singh is a consultant Paediatric Surgeon and Examiner for FRCS(Paed) working in University Hospitals, Nottingham, UK