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Normal saline is not normal and other nonsense that people love to spout (The PRoMPT trial)
Personally, I find the normal saline versus balanced fluid debate pretty boring. I don’t really care which you choose. It seems incredibly unlikely that your choice of crystalloid will have any clinical impact on patients. I use saline, but I don’t really have a strong opinion. I don’t think anyone should have a strong opinion. Ironically, the people with the strongest opinions seem to stray the furthest from the evidence.