ABSTRACT

Based on the findings of this study, unfortunately the majority of patients and patients' companions commented on a topic outside their specialty despite not having sufficient and academic information about treatment and medicine. The effectiveness and usefulness of serum therapy has also been acknowledged.

Overall 54.9% of patients and 43.1% of their relatives believed that they cannot recover unless they receive IV fluid therapy with suitable medicine. Also 97.2% of patients and 96.6% of their companions thought that drugs effects increase if they are administered with IV fluid.

In this descriptive analytical study, 215 patients and 290 companions were included. Patients who were prescribed intravenous fluids in the emergency room of a university hospital, and their companions were asked questions about the importance of fluid therapy in improving their clinical symptoms and filled a questionnaire about the importance of fluid therapy in the process of patients' recovery.

In this study, we evaluated the importance and effect of fluid therapy in patients referred to the emergency department in terms of patient satisfaction from recovery.