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Therapeutics > Drug Therapy > Fluid Therapy

Preferred term

Fluid Therapy  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Fluid Therapies
  • Therapies, Fluid
  • Therapy, Fluid

Note

  • coordinate with disease /ther, not disease /diet ther; do not specify route of administration unless particularly significant

Scope note

  • Therapy whose basic objective is to restore the volume and composition of the body fluids to normal with respect to WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE. Fluids may be administered intravenously, orally, by intermittent gavage, or by HYPODERMOCLYSIS.

History note

  • 79

In other languages

  • nestehoito

    Finnish

  • nesteyttäminen
  • nesteytys
  • nesteytyshoito
  • rehydraatio
  • rehydratio
  • Vätsketerapi

    Swedish

  • Oral rehydrationsterapi
  • Oral vätskeersättning
  • Rehydrering
  • Vätskebehandling
  • Vätskeersättning

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005440

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