Received filtered iv coconut water without serious reac tions.
Coconut water iv drip.
Coconut water has about one fortieth the sodium level of plasma while the potassium level is about 10 15 times higher.
Authors d campbell falck 1 t thomas t m falck n tutuo k clem affiliation 1 department of emergency.
The photo of their setup is something.
But besides the high potassium coconut water is also loaded with calcium.
Coconut water can be used as iv drip by brian lam to summarize on a remote solomon island a patient with new stroke and inability to tolerate by mouth hydration was getting iv fluids but a shortage developed and so coconut water was tried.
Coconut water is known to have been used in emergency cases as an intravenous hydration fluid when there is a lack of standard iv fluid.
Fifty one samples of coconut water from tarawa were analysed for a variety of constituents to assess its potential usefulness in the oral and pare the recent epidemic of cholera on the pacific ocean atoll of tarawa gilbert islands renewed interest in the use of coconut water as a rehydration fluid.
We report the successful use of coconut water as a short term intravenous hydration fluid for a solomon island patient a laboratory analysis of the local coconuts and a review of previously documented intravenous coconut use.
In 1954 eiseman conducted a prospective study in both thailand and st.
The intravenous use of coconut water am j emerg med.
Should this material prove to be satisfactory it might be of benefit both to.
Coconut water can be used as an intravenous drip instead of saline a fact from factourism.
Louis in which 21 patients successfully received filtered iv coconut water without serious reac tions 3 he infused approximately 200 to 500 ml per patient.