Maintenance Fluids Calculations
Calculates maintenance fluid requirements by weight.
While originally derived in pediatric patients, this calculator is applicable to any age. Consider using ideal body weight in obese patients. If not calculating based on ideal body weight, use clinical judgment for dosing. A 1-liter bolus may be appropriate for most patients, such as overweight adolescents and adults.
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Malcolm Holliday, MD, (d. 2014) was a pediatric nephrologist and physiologist. Dr. Holliday’s original work studying inherited tubular disorders and congenital renal defects eventually led him to become professor of pediatrics and chief of the Division of Pediatric Nephrology at University of California San Francisco, a position he held for over two and a half decades of his 60 year career.