He is a post-op perforated appy pt with an NG tube, and I was told it was for fluid maintenance. There were no other lab values besides pre-op blood work. Thanks for all the explanations, very...
in that case, i'm completely stumped, i don't know why this pt is not getting something else to replace calories? the patient is 10 years old, but still seems like it would not be
So my patient is getting NaCl 0.9% with Dextrose 5% and KCl 20 mmol/L... "for TFI" according to the doc's orders, but no matter where I look I cannot figure out what TFI is. Can someone please...