- All should have daily U&Es, FBCs, creatinine
- 25 to 30 ml/kg/day of water
- Approximately 1 mmol/kg/day of potassium, sodium and chloride.
- Do not add potassium to weight based fluid prescriptions
- Weight-based potassium prescriptions should be rounded to the nearest common fluids available (for example, a 67 kg person should have fluids containing 20 mmol and 40 mmol of potassium in a 24-hour period)
- Approximately 50 to 100 g/day of glucose to limit starvation ketosis. (This quantity will not address patients’ nutritional needs)