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...
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...
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