{"id":1006,"date":"2013-11-02T21:58:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T21:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2013-11-02T21:59:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T21:59:20","slug":"my-uses-for-hypertonic-saline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/my-uses-for-hypertonic-saline\/","title":{"rendered":"My uses for Hypertonic Saline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normal <a title=\"Saline\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saline_(medicine)\">Saline<\/a> was invented in 1896 by Mr. Hartog Hamburger in Holland. Yes, this was at one point called Hamburger&#8217;s solution. Normal saline is a close approximation to the osmolarity of blood &#8211; thus there are tons of uses for normal saline. So how about HYPERTONIC Saline? What are the uses of something that has a higher osmolarity of blood? There are multiple uses but in my career it has been used for reducing brain swelling in trauma patients (more specifically to lower <a title=\"increase intracranial pressure\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/medlineplus\/ency\/article\/000793.htm\">intracranial pressure<\/a>, where maintenance of cerebral perfusion is key as it relies on blood pressure being high enough above intracranial pressure.)<\/p>\n<p>The other use of HYPERTONIC Saline is in the <a title=\"Cosmetic Surgery Modesto\" href=\"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\">COSMETIC treatment of spider veins<\/a>. Now it&#8217;s less popular for this indication because <a title=\"Pilodocanol = Asclera\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asclera.com\/\">POLIDOCANOL <\/a>has been shown to be a superior product for spider vein treatment (and more expensive), but safety and superiority trumps cost for the most part. We use Polidocanol at Surgical Artistry, in <a title=\"Modesto, CA\" href=\"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/modesto\/\">Modesto, CA.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normal Saline was invented in 1896 by Mr. Hartog Hamburger in Holland. Yes, this was at one point called Hamburger&#8217;s solution. Normal saline is a close approximation to the osmolarity of blood &#8211; thus there are tons of uses for normal saline. So how about HYPERTONIC Saline? What are the uses of something that has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,297,19,1],"tags":[325,102],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmetic-surgery","category-general-surgery","category-modesto","category-uncategorized","tag-hypertonic-saline","tag-spider-veins"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}