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Table 3 Fluid management according to current textbook opinion [17].

From: IVC CLAMP: infrahepatic inferior vena cava clamping during hepatectomy - a randomised controlled trial in an interdisciplinary setting

Compensatory intravascular volume expansion (with epidural anaesthesia) [mL]

Compensatory intravascular volume expansion (without epidural anaestesia) [mL]

Deficit [mL/h]

Maintenance [mL/h]

Third space [mL/h]

Blood loss [mL]

CrF: Body weight [kg] × 10 [mL/kg]

CrF: Body weight [kg] × 5-7 [mL/kg]

CrF: (Body weight + 40) [kg] × [mL/kg/h]

CrF: (Body weight + 40) [kg] × [mL/kg/h]

CrF: Body weight [kg] × 4-6 [mL/kg/h]

CrF: 3:1 [volume:volume]

CoF: 1:1 [volume:volume]

  1. mL = mililiters; h = hours; kg = kilogramms; CrF = Crystalloid solutions; CoF = Colloidal solutions