Pharmacology and physiology of colloids
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J.B. Salmon; M.G. Mythen
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Article
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1993
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The importance of an adequate circulating volume in the critically ill is well established. Plasma, albumin, synthetic colloids and crystalloids may all be used for volume expansion but the first two are expensive and crystalloids have to be given in much larger volumes than colloids to achieve the