Treatment - Circulatory Overload

Treatment focuses on providing oxygen support and reducing plasma volume with diuretics (and phlebotomy if symptoms persist).

Pulmonary edema should be promptly and aggressively treated, and infusion of colloid preparations, including plasma in cellular components, reduced to a minimum.

Initial treatment includes

• early recognition;
• stopping the transfusion;
• not transfusing further units;
• keeping the IV line open with saline;
• placing the patient in a sitting position
• initiating early treatment based on symptoms under direction of a physician.