Pediatric dehydration with hypovolemia
Educational use only. Not clinically reviewed2-year-old girl for calm pediatric dehydration and hypovolemia recognition, qualified rehydration coordination, serial reassessment, and active-risk handoff. About 8 simulated minutes.
What you will practise
- Connect the supplied intake, gastrointestinal losses, weight history, urine, mentation, and whole-child trajectory.
- Recognize clinical dehydration with compensated hypovolemia without relying on one sign or a calculated percentage.
- Activate experienced rehydration, electrolyte, glucose, access, monitoring, and reassessment ownership.
- Review ongoing losses, oral tolerance, alternative serious causes, and recurrence or escalation triggers in parallel.
- After elapsed qualified care, review the fixed whole-child response without declaring rehydration complete.
- Hand off hydration signs, intake, output, ongoing losses, oral tolerance, laboratory review, caregiver context, and named owners.
Review and sources
Not clinically reviewed. No clinician has signed this scenario.
- World Health Organization. Guideline on management of pneumonia and diarrhoea in children up to 10 years of age. WHO. 2024. ISBN 978-92-4-010341-2.
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Intravenous fluid therapy in children and young people in hospital. NICE guideline NG29. Published 2015; last updated 2020; fluid-bolus wording amended October 2022. Recommendations 1.3.1-1.3.5.
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Diarrhoea and vomiting caused by gastroenteritis in under 5s: diagnosis and management. Clinical guideline CG84. Published 2009; fluid-bolus wording amended October 2022. Recommendations 1.2, 1.3, and 1.7.
Open Sim Lab is an educational simulator, not for clinical use. It is not a clinical decision-support tool, not a dosing calculator, and is not validated for any decision affecting a real patient.