Background Inhaled hypertonic saline (HTS) improves quality of life and reduces pulmonary exacerbations when given long term in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). While increasingly being offered for ...

Objectives To investigate whether nebulised hypertonic saline (HS) treatment would decrease length of hospital stay (LOS) among infants with moderate-to severe-bronchiolitis compared with standard ...

Trials evaluating the use of hypertonic saline solutions for resuscitation after traumatic injury have not shown an overall mortality benefit compared with isotonic fluid administration.

Purpose. The use of hypertonic saline injection in trauma patients is discussed. Summary. Patients with hemorrhage, burns, and traumatic brain injury (TBI) may develop hypovolemic shock and ...

Purpose To find out a simple, chief, standard & easily available agent for bronchoprovocation & also to determine the provocating dose of hypertonic saline, which will reduce at least 20% of FEV 1 in ...

Many treatments have been tried, but in all cases they were shown to be ineffective when properly tested. Most recently, it has been suggested that inhaling a mist of 3% hypertonic saline (salt water) ...

Introduction Hypertonic saline (HTS) is commonly nebulised used to aid airway clearance in patients with chronic suppurative lung disease. In view of the risk of bronchoconstriction, prior to starting ...

Renal hemodynamics and the excretion rates of six ions were studied in a group of 24 normotensive and hypertensive subjects during expansion of extracellular fluid volume (ECF) with intravenous ...

Background Hyperosmolar agents have been used for a long time in managing patients with increased intracranial pressure due to different aetiologies. Mannitol and 3% hypertonic saline (HTS) are the ...

Although hypertonic saline can be given at the care center to make you cough, you will most often inhale hypertonic saline as a mist twice a day through a nebulizer. However, everyone is different, so ...

To this note, we screened FDA approved reagents for their ability to enhance viral vector transduction of primary human airway epithelial cells and identified hypertonic saline as a candidate that ...

Otherwise known as "saline amniocentesis," "salting out," or a "hypertonic saline" abortion, this technique is used after 16 weeks of pregnancy, when enough fluid has accumulated in the amniotic ...