We report the successful use in a wilderness environment of rectally administered oral rehydation fluid to resuscitate a patient who was in shock. The subject was a 21-year-old Nepali man who had experienced a major upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage.
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Wilderness & Environmental Medicine
Vol. 16 • No. 4
December 2005
Vol. 16 • No. 4
December 2005
fluid resuscitation
gastrointestinal hemorrhage
proctoclysis
wilderness medicine