zip_tack t1_iqqbpjz wrote on October 2, 2022 at 9:37 AM Reply to TIL that Santorio Santorio, an Italian Professor, Physician, qnd Physiologist weighed everything he consumed and excreted over a period of 30yrs in the study of Insensible Perspiration or what we know today as metabolism. by mfairview He actually did calculate the correct amount of fluid loss via breathing etc. We add about the same amount if the patient is totally dependent on intravenous fluids. Permalink 31
zip_tack t1_iqqbpjz wrote
Reply to TIL that Santorio Santorio, an Italian Professor, Physician, qnd Physiologist weighed everything he consumed and excreted over a period of 30yrs in the study of Insensible Perspiration or what we know today as metabolism. by mfairview
He actually did calculate the correct amount of fluid loss via breathing etc. We add about the same amount if the patient is totally dependent on intravenous fluids.