|Articles|June 24, 2009

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Your daily dose of clinical tips and quips: Fluid therapy.

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“In dogs, a simple method to calculate one-fourth of the fluid volume for treating shock is to take an animal's weight in pounds and add a zero, giving you the amount of fluid in milliliters to administer as a bolus.”

-Elisa M. Mazzaferro, MS, DVM, PhD, DACVECC

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