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Positive fluid balance as a major predictor of clinical outcome of patients with sepsis/septic shock after discharge from intensive care unit

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Gil Ben-Horin
Published: Aug 16, 2016

A monocentric retrospective study at Soroka Medical Center in Israel examined the true prognostic clinical significance of a positive fluid balance in septic ICU patients. The authors suggest that positive cumulative fluid balance is one of the major factors that can predict the clinical outcome of critically ill patients during their ICU stay and after their discharge from the ICU. The cumulative fluid balance was automatically calculated by MetaVision and reflected the net cumulative balance of daily inputs and outputs after each patient’s admission to the ICUs.

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