Blood Volume

SAN DIEGO — Blood volume monitoring may lead to shorter hospital stays and fewer readmissions for adults with end-stage kidney disease and heart failure, data show.

Effect of 4% albumin solution vs. Ringer’s acetate as priming solution in CABG.

A 4% albumin solution for priming and perioperative IV volume replacement solution in CABG did not reduce risk for 90-day major adverse events compared with standard Ringer’s acetate solution, researchers reported.

BOSTON – Treatment with latanoprostene bunod 0.024% induced a significant increase in optic nerve blood volume and oxygen saturation compared with latanoprost 0.005%, according to a presentation at the American Academy of Optometry annual meeting.

Stryker has acquired Gauss Surgical, which produces the Triton artificial-intelligence platform for monitoring blood loss during labor, surgery and other medical procedures.

Evaluation of blood volume phenotypes may not only guide treatment in HF hospitalization, but may also be cost-effective for patients, according to two posters presented at the virtual Heart Failure Society of America Scientific Meeting.