Critical care : the official journal of the Critical Care Forum
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Multicenter Study Observational Study
Time course of fluid responsiveness in sepsis: the fluid challenge revisiting (FCREV) study.
Fluid challenge (FC) is one of the most common practices in Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The present study aimed to evaluate whether echocardiographic assessment of the response to FC at the end of the infusion or 20 min later could affect the results of the FC. ⋯ This study shows that 51.3% of initial responders have a persistent response to fluid 30 min after the beginning of fluid infusion and only 41.3% have a transient response highlighting that fluid responsiveness is time dependent.