Hyperhydration in Burn Patients: the Current State of the Issue
Journal: Russian Sklifosovsky Journal Emergency Medical Care
Year: 2019

The article presents the current state of hyperhydration issue in burn patients as a result of excess volume of infusion therapy during the acute period of burn disease. We report the data on the pathogenesis of burn disease and standard formulas for determining the volume of infusion therapy in case of burn shock, mechanisms and clinical manifestations of hyperhydration in burn patients and modern methods of its management. Since the danger of hyperhydration persists even after a shock in an ac