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the fabulous uh dr simon cook and thank you simon for uh for giving up your valuable free time in

this uh place to the festive period. Free time, absolutely.

What are you doing over Christmas?

Oh, we'll be London-based and, well, London and Edinburgh, between the two, so it will be.

Very good, quite a bit of a bit of different space.

Anyway, so I thought we'd talk about a fluid therapy, as in in the, I suppose suppose the basics to some of the concepts and

and also maybe considerations for the for the for the future so

so maybe I'll see you in your in your recent

investigation sort of what what how do we look at fluid therapy well I suppose when we're

trying to sort of teach it to the students we are always trying to think about well

seeing that they understand the type of fluid that they are giving and the compositions

of all the different options that we have available and recognizing why you might choose one over the other.

Yeah, I'd like to do some more research into this and what's kind of used in practice and

available still, et cetera, et cetera.

But what we're really trying to get across is the compositions of your most commonly used fluids.

For example, you're sodium chloride and your compound

sodium lactate, heartman solutions. So I guess they're the main stays of what we are

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