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To: Col Frank Slade

Billy Boy says she was dehydrated and overheated. Weird that no one gave her some water to drink while she waited for the van.

I always drink water when I’m hot or dehydrated but what do I know.


112 posted on 09/13/2016 12:53:25 PM PDT by No Socialist
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To: No Socialist

As a RN I’ve performed IV re-hydration on hundreds of severely dehydrated patients. When dehydration is severe enough to cause a syncopal episode you would need at least 2-3 liters of IV fluid infused as quickly as possible, provided there is no heart failure. The fastest an IV pump will will infuse is 999 mL per hour (at least the pumps I work with). It would have taken at least 2 hours to re-hydrate her and even after that she still wouldn’t have been as chipper as she was walking out of her daughter’s apartment, especially if she was in renal failure. Dehydration my butt.


134 posted on 09/13/2016 7:40:34 PM PDT by GoldwaterCountry (Viva Reagan Revolucion!)
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