Burns
Volume 34, Issue 8 , Pages 1090-1097 , December 2008

Increased fluid resuscitation can lead to adverse outcomes in major-burn injured patients, but low mortality is achievable

  • Joel M. Dulhunty

      Affiliations

    • Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Butterfield Street, Herston, QLD 4029, Australia
    • Burns, Trauma & Critical Care Research Centre, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +61 7 36368897; fax: +61 7 36363542.
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  • Robert J. Boots

      Affiliations

    • Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Butterfield Street, Herston, QLD 4029, Australia
    • Burns, Trauma & Critical Care Research Centre, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
    • ,
  • Michael J. Rudd

      Affiliations

    • Burns, Trauma & Critical Care Research Centre, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
    • Professor Stuart Pegg Adult Burns Centre, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
    • ,
  • Michael J. Muller

      Affiliations

    • Burns, Trauma & Critical Care Research Centre, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
    • Professor Stuart Pegg Adult Burns Centre, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
    • ,
  • Jeffrey Lipman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Butterfield Street, Herston, QLD 4029, Australia
    • Burns, Trauma & Critical Care Research Centre, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

,Accepted 21 January 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2008.01.011

Burns
Volume 34, Issue 8 , Pages 1090-1097 , December 2008

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