crystalloid's Usage Examples:

crystalloid, colloid and/or blood, depending on hemoglobin level and availability ).

crystalloid solution, maximum 1 liter.

intravenous crystalloid should be prescribed to replace lost water and electrolytes.

crystalloid given should be varied according to the clinical response of the patient.

Graham (Chemical and Physical Researches) recommended dialysis as the best mode of preparing gummic acid, and stated that the power of gum to penetrate the parchment septum is 400 times less than that of sodium chloride, and, further, that by mixing the gum with substances of the crystalloid class the diffusibility is lowered, and may be even reduced to nothing.

It is not yet agreed whether colloid solution is the same in kind though different in degree from crystalloid solution or is a phenomenon of an entirely different order.

In yet other solutions, the particles are smaller again, and seem to approach in size the larger molecules of crystalloid substances.