Question 103 · LEK · Water balance
A 50-year-old man comes to the ER because of vomiting for the last 24 hours. The first and immediate step should be the intravenous transfusion of:
- A. 5% glucose solution.
- B. 10% glucose solution.
- C. 20% glucose solution.
- D. 0.9% saline solution.
- E. 3% saline solution.
Hint
Prolonged vomiting causes losses of water, sodium, chloride and hydrogen ions; choose a fluid that restores both volume and chloride.
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