sueros

01:17 Oct 15, 2019 

Rectal hydration! Interesting! ;)
Far more common than proctoclysis -and than subcutaneous infusion as well- IV fluids are used from wound cleansing [1] to intraosseous infusion [2]. But you are right; as a general reference to the infusion "bags or bottles" those sueros y fluidoterápicos might be better named infusion fluids / infusion fluids and solutions; se trata de productos preparados para uso endovenoso pero ciertamente no son de administración exclusiva por esta vía. Nevertheless, the general denomination of IV fluids (and solutions) is not only common but understandable, in spite of them not being necessarily IV-infused.

Thanks for thinking it over, Helena!


[1] Wound cleansing is conducted with at least 100ml of sterile normal saline (NS) or sterile water container" https://www.google.es/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://...

[2] Any intravenous fluid, blood products or routine resuscitation drugs can be administered through the IO route.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211419X1...

00:09 Oct 15, 2019 

Igual voy a guardar "fluid replacement solutions" porque me parece una muy buena opción dentro de otros contextos

21:49 Oct 14, 2019 

21:34 Oct 14, 2019 

What about rectal infusions and the direct injection of fluid into subcutaneous tissue (I'm using layman's terms so that everyone understands). As far as I can gather, these two procedures use 'sueros'.

I'm not trying to make life difficult, I'm interested to know.

21:14 Oct 14, 2019 

Yes, I understand your point.
The key here is
1. Fluidoterápicos
Even though you could find references to "fluidoterapia oral", there are no "fluidoterápicos orales"; fluidoterápicos are IV fluids
And 2. (You will also have to trust me here) No one would mix sueros de rehidratación oral with sueros endovenosos or fluidoterápicos in one single product group

The original listing does include, specifically, soluciones orales (third item), but those are not either sueros orales / sueros de rehidratación oral but "oral solutions", so it does not help us here. But definitely, when you want to refer specifically to the latter (sueros orales o de rehidratación oral) you either explicitly use "oral" in your phrasing or the context offers no doubt that you are talking about drinking fluids; whenever "suero" is used (in a medical context) without "oral" it refers to iv fluids/solutions.

I am sorry anyhow; I understand I am asking for too much trust here! ;)

And Yvonne, you are right; serum (suero) does really not fit in here. It is a pity your client is not of any help!

¡Ánimo!

20:40 Oct 14, 2019 

Consulté con el cliente y no sabe exactamente a qué se refiere y me contestó "traduce suero y traduce fluidoterápicos y ya" como si fuera tan directo. Luego me preguntó si suero no era "serum"... Le tuve que aclarar la diferencia

19:00 Oct 14, 2019 

Hmm, not sure about your logic there. As it stands, it's clearly ambiguous (to those of us who are not in health care anyway) not least because we're having this conversation :-) (as a consequence of it not specifically mentioning the "IV" part).

17:46 Oct 14, 2019 

At first I was going to suggest 'volume expanders' but decided against it.

A volume expander is a type of intravenous therapy that has the function of providing volume for the circulatory system. It may be used for fluid replacement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_expander

17:28 Oct 14, 2019 

Hi Robert.
In Spain "suero" is also used to refer to oral solutions. And yet, the problem with the "safer" options is that they are ambiguous, not stating clearly whether it talks about (oral) fluid replacement or rehydration solutions or to IV ones. Even though we call sueros both to iv and oral solutions, context usually is enough to know which one we are talking about. We simply do not use suero to refer to both, oral and iv solutions, at the same time. And so, as said, the problem with those "safer" options is that they are ambiguous -while the original is not; it refers (clearly) to iv (fluids and) solutions.

17:18 Oct 14, 2019 

I asked my sister who's been a nurse in the UK for 40 years, and she said that 'fluid replacement solution' was fine. I hadn't mentioned it because I appreciate that I might not have given her a proper explanation of 'suero'.

17:13 Oct 14, 2019 

I know you have a lot of expertise in this field and that you're probably right about it referring to IV solutions, even if it's not explicitly stated. However, precisely because the text doesn't state mention "sueros IV", don't you think it's safer (from a translator's point of view, of course) to simply use a term that can refer to both oral and IV solutions, given that in Latin America or at least in Mexico, "sueros" can refer to both? The table given as context seems to refer to all kinds of medical supplies, i.e., oral, topical and injectable.

15:22 Oct 14, 2019 

Totalmente de acuerdo con Chema.

14:50 Oct 14, 2019 

En este caso, la referencia original se refiere a sueros (soluciones) y fluidos (fluidoterapia) de administración endovenosa. Resultaría muy extraño en una clasificación como la planteada por el OP que se mezclaran soluciones orales con sueros endovenosos.

Ver pej.,
http://www.ffis.es/volviendoalobasico/4anexo_fluidoterapia.h...

Adquisición de sueros y fluidoterapia
https://www.google.es/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://...

18:49 Oct 13, 2019 

También hay "Serums"