Abstract
In countries of temperate climate, such as the United Kingdom, the fluid and electrolyte requirements for a patient recovering from surgery are well known. During the past decade much work has been done on the metabolic response to trauma, and a great deal of information has been documented (Moore and Ball, 1952). Those studies, however, have been carried out mainly in North America and Europe, and as such are strictly applicable only to patients under like conditions. The different circumstances of surgical patients in the tropics, both racial and climatic, make it probable that there are differences in their requirements to an extent that appears, as yet, to be insufficiently known.
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