Fatal Disnatremia caused by Elective Colonscopy or should say, caused by PEG

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Read this article carefully, there is some information about the outcome of these patients under "GoLytely wasn't responsible for the morbitity and deaths" It goes on to say that he finds it hard to believe that the medication couldn't have caused this UNLESS............they had and overabudance of escheria coli, or c-diff..............this means if one had bad bacteria in the gut, it would cause these outcomes..............Quote:

I find it difficult to believe that intestinal secretion was the cause of the complications or deaths unless these patients had the unappreciated presence of gut mucosal ischaemia or bacterial infection such as C difficle. 1. Gastric lavage for major operations? G Fiddian-Green bmj.com/cgi/eletters/325/7366/674/b#25849, 27 Sep 2002

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