Things are getting personal in the rearguard action to save the European Medicines Agency Marketing Authorisations for hydroxyethyl starch solutions.[…]
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Interstitium as an organ; an old idea.
I am grateful to friends in the scientific community who put this paper my way; Katz; INTERSTITIAL SPACE – THE[…]
Read moreBiggest organ in the body?
@Interstitium1 says “What’s your body’s biggest organ? Get your mind out of the gutter! It’s me, the #Interstitium. So runs the[…]
Read moreA transplant for rolled-up outer glycocalyx layer?
Last summer I shared with you Fitzroy Curry’s latest view of the endothelial glycocalyx layer as “a layered structure with[…]
Read moreMerry Christmas & Happy New Year.
In 2017 it was my pleasure to meet with many enthusiastic young Starlingists from all over the world who are[…]
Read moreHome thoughts from abroad.
Sitting in my hotel room in Bruges at the end of a hectic International Fluid Academy meeting in Antwerp. Well[…]
Read moreNaughty intensivists have been ignoring the revised labelling for hydroxyethyl starch solutions.
There are now two drug utilisation studies on the effectiveness of the risk minimisation measures implemented in the Marketing Approval[…]
Read moreGoal directed therapy; which fluid for which goal?
I had an interesting question today from a correspondent in sunny Spain; is colloid preferable as the bolus challenge in[…]
Read moreThe Revised Starling Principle and its relevance to perioperative fluid management.
After the shock of BJA Acceptance of The Revised Starling Principle hypothesis in 2012 came the post-publication anxiety that I[…]
Read moreThe Four Minute non-invasive CVP.
Yesterday we tried something neither of us had done together before; we measured one another central venous pressure. It took[…]
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