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Its Clinical Application

JOSEPH K. NARAT, M.D.; A. K. CARTON, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1951;62(4):520-523.

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THE RATIONALE and the experimental base on which intraperitoneal drip for postoperative administration of fluids is founded were presented in previous papers.¹ It was hoped that the customary methods of postoperative administration of fluids might be supplemented by the employment of intraperitoneal drip, if the following three rules were observed: (1) Instead of a rapid infusion, a slow drip is employed, (2) antibiotics are added for prophylactic purposes and (3) plastic tubing, without a needle, is used to exclude the danger of an injury of a vein.

Animal experimentation¹ has shown that intraperitoneal administration of dextrose, isotonic sodium chloride and vitamin solutions, but not amino acids, is well tolerated, that the fluid is promptly absorbed and that the drip does not contribute to a spread of a localized infection within the abdominal cavity.

One more phase of the problem remained to be investigated before a clinical trial was . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO

From the Department of Surgery, St. Elizabeth Hospital.

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