NEJM: Balanced Crystalloids vs Saline | Journal Club

This edition of journal club looks at two articles in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) of circa 30,000 patients studied at Vanderbilt Medical Centre, USA. One in non-critically ill patients. Click here: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1711586?query=featured_home The other in critically ill adult patients: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1711584?query=featured_home Accompanied by a very balanced Editorial by Professor John Myburgh. Click here: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe1800449?query=recirc_curatedRelated_article -- Featuring Monty Mythen and his guest Andy Shaw, Professor and Chief, Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (UK), a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine and a Fellow of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (UK).