British Journal of Anaesthesia 2008 100(2):284; doi:10.1093/bja/aem394
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Liberal or restrictive fluid administration in fast-track colonic surgery: a randomized, double-blind study (BJA 2007; 99: 500–8; doi:10.1093/bja/aem211)There was an error in the Results and Conclusion sections of the abstract of this article which conflicts with the full conclusions. They should have read as follows:
Results. ‘Restrictive’ (median 1640 ml, range 935–2250 ml) compared with ‘liberal’ fluid administration (median 5050 ml, range 3563–8050 ml) led to significant improvement in pulmonary function and postoperative hypoxaemia. In contrast, we found significantly reduced concentrations of cardiovascularly active hormones (renin, aldosterone, and angiotensin II) in Group 2. The number of patients with complications was not significantly different between the groups [1 (‘liberal’ group) vs 6 (‘restrictive’ group) patients, P=0.08].
Conclusions.A ‘restrictive’ fluid regimen led to a transient improvement in pulmonary function and postoperative hypoxaemia but no other differences in all-over physiological recovery compared with a ‘liberal’ fluid regimen after fast-track colonic surgery. Since morbidity tended to be increased with the ‘restrictive’ fluid regimen, future studies should focus on the effect of individualized ‘goal-directed’ fluid administration strategies rather than fixed fluid amounts on postoperative outcome.
The authors and editor apologize for the error.
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