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Summary
Experiments were performed to ascertain possible differences in survival following tourniquet trauma and saline infusion therapy between rats chronically undernourished to 77.4-80.3%, and those acutely starved to 77-80% of initial body weight. It has been demonstrated that there is a significantly higher percentage of survival when chronically undernourished rats are infused with 7 ml normal saline solution/100 g body weight following an otherwise lethal tourniquet trauma. Acutely starved rats are not protected by this level of replacement, but do show 75% survival when infused at level of 15 ml saline solution/100 g body weight.
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