摘要：Because of the relative difficulty in maintaining continuous intravenous infusions in small children suffering from cholera, a simpler method of maintenance fluid therapy would be useful. With this in mind, the role of intraperitoneal fluid administration was evaluated in 8 adults and 26 children (aged 6 years or less) having moderate to severe cholera or cholera-like diarrhoeal disease. In adults intraperitoneal fluid was found to be of no significant value in maintenance therapy because peritoneal absorption was not sufficiently rapid to replace expected stool losses. In children, however, this form of therapy was considerably more successful. In 16 of 19 children with cholera and in all 7 with non-cholera diarrhoea, intraperitoneally administered fluid was absorbed rapidly enough to replace a major part of the initial fluid deficit on admission and all subsequent stool losses. No complications of intraperitoneal puncture were encountered. Full text Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (1.1M), or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Links to PubMed are also available for Selected References . 837 838 839 840 841 842 843 844 845 846
