title: Standardized diagnosis and treatment of fluid, acid-base and electrolyte disorders in the surgical patient with the aid of a programmable pocket calculator.
abstract: The approach to fluid, acid-base and electrolyte disorders in the surgical patient has been standardized in a pocket calculator program that categorizes these disorders into formal diagnoses and subsequently uses these diagnoses to determine the appropriate therapy. The program was tested in 80 infusion regimens of patients in the intensive care and surgical wards. The advantages of a standardized approach to these disorders, using diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms, are briefly discussed.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003201:Computers; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D005260:Female; D005440:Fluid Therapy; D006801:Humans; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative; D014883:Water-Electrolyte Imbalance / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy