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Oral rehydration therapy (ORT) is a type of fluid replacement used to prevent and treat dehydration, especially due to diarrhea. [1] It involves drinking water with modest amounts of sugar and salts, specifically sodium and potassium. [1]
A person begins drinking oral rehydration solution (ORS) to prevent dehydration and electrolyte loss. This strategy adds modest amounts of sugar and salt to water. There are prepackaged ORS products available. A person can also use home products such as lightly salted soup or lightly salted water from the cooking of rice. [1] [2]
Fluid replacement or fluid resuscitation is the medical practice of replenishing bodily fluid lost through sweating, bleeding, fluid shifts or other pathologic processes. . Fluids can be replaced with oral rehydration therapy (drinking), intravenous therapy, rectally such as with a Murphy drip, or by hypodermoclysis, the direct injection of fluid into the subcutaneous tis
He used an oral rehydration solution (ORS) using locally available ingredients and with minimum number of ingredients consisting of 22g glucose, 3.5g sodium chloride, 2.5g sodium hydrogencarbonate per litre of water. The glucose was prepared by JH-CMRT and the ingredients were weighed and packed in sealed and labeled polyethylene bags.
Proceeds from sales of DripDrop support the company's philanthropic efforts. [13] [15]Dr. Eduardo Dolhun, Inventor and Founder.. Through the medical not-for-profit organization Doctors Outreach, DripDrop has been used around the world in disaster and relief settings including Haiti and Pakistan in 2010, [16] [17] the Philippines in 2013, Nepal in 2015, Greece and Ecuador in 2016, [18] and ...
The most common imaging modality to be used in hybrid ORs is a C-arm. Expert consensus rates the performance of mobile C-arms in hybrid ORs as insufficient, because the limited power of the tube impacts image quality, the field of view is smaller for image-intensifier systems than for flat-panel detector systems and the cooling system of mobile ...
Sortable table Abbreviation Meaning o: Nothing [ō—letter o with overbar] O 2: oxygen: OA: osteoarthritis: OAB: Overactive bladder: OAF: osteoclast activating factor
Women with ORS with a pelvic mass should have appropriate evaluation for malignancy . Hormonal therapy to suppress ovarian function is an alternative treatment for those who refuse surgery, or those who are not candidates for surgery. [3] Medications may be used to treat ORS and include GnRH agonists, danazol, or progesterone. [4]