Historia de los coloides

Abstract

Sepsis is one of the fundamental causes of hospital care, both at the emergency level, as well as in intensive care units as well as hospitalization facilities. The recognition of this syndrome as well as the beginning of an early treatment, has shown to decrease the mortality of our patients. Within the treatment of sepsis, in addition to antibiotics, aggressive resuscitation with fluids, the most frequently used are crystalloids. However, there are other types of fluids, such as colloids, more specifically albumin, which could be considered to be administered in the resuscitation process of the septic patient when they require large amounts of crystalloids during it. In the present review, a systematic search was carried out on articles published in English and Spanish, without a deadline, within the Pubmed, Medline, Latindex and Google Scholar databases and those that included the keywords “colloids”, “history of colloids”, “sepsis”, “fluids”, “resuscitation fluids” and related studies. In addition, specific topics were consulted according to the bibliographical references presented. This work has allowed us to build a narrative description of the world history of the origin of colloids, their lights and shadows, as well as the current situation in everything that refers to this type of resuscitation fluid.