Hard hit by the Dengue plague, a pocket scientific meeting on the fluid management of dengue hemorrhagic fever was conducted on September 14, 2006 at the Lenox Hotel in Dagupan City.
The guest speaker, Dr. Herbert Uy, a pediatric intensivist of the Philippine General Hospital and St. Luke’s Medical Center, spoke on the “Fluid Management in Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever.” He gave emphasis to the importance of early and aggressive fluid replacement with crystalloids. And in severe cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever, the use of colloids, which are made up of high molecular weight proteins that theoretically “plug the holes” in blood vessels in cases of plasma leakage into the extravascular space. He cautioned the audience against unnecessary or prophylactic blood component transfusions as he enumerated the different transfusion related problems and complications.
A well attended affair, a lively open forum followed with Dr. Agnes D. Dimaano as moderator. susie castano, md
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