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Question: Among children with dehydration treated in an emergency department, does rapid intravenous rehydration, compared to standard rehydration, improve clinical hydration at two hours or reduce the length of ED stay?
Question type: Therapy
Study design: Randomized controlled
Investigators from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto conducted a randomized controlled trial to determine if rapid rehydration results in improved clinical hydration at two hours when compared to standard therapy. Between December 2006 and April 2010, children aged 3 months to 11 years seen in the emergency department (ED) with gastroenteritis and dehydration, determined using a validated dehydration scale,1 were considered for trial enrollment if oral rehydration failed. Enrolled patients were randomly assigned to either rapid hydration or …
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