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Regarding fluid correction, if you have a patient with diabetes insipidus who is hypotensive, what fluid do you use to correct the blood pressure? Do you use normal saline or 5% dextrose (tonicity like water)?
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| SmokyWaters
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whenever ANYBODY is hypotensive....u have to first restore the plasma volume...which requires...NS ....once it's restored...then give the fluid that has been lost....
in diabetes insipidis....hypotonic fluid is lost...so 5% dextrose with half normal saline given
please correct me if I am wrong
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| SmokyWaters
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yups...that is it...I just remembered it... 
also give the drug...desmopressin if its central ...
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