Cochrane Injuries Specialised Register (searched: 1 December 2011) 1. (colloid* or albumin* or albumen* or plasma* or starch* or dextran* or gelofus* or hemacc* or haemacc* or hydrocolloid*) 2. (fluid* or volume or plasma or rehydrat* or blood or oral) and (replac* or therapy or substitut* or restor* or resuscitat* or rehydrat*) 3. 1 and 2

Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials 2011, issue 4 (The Cochrane Library) #1 MeSH descriptor Colloids explode all trees in MeSH products #2 MeSH descriptor Plasma explode all trees in MeSH products #3 MeSH descriptor Albumins explode all trees in MeSH products #4 (colloid* or albumin* or albumen* or plasma* or starch* or dextran* or gelofus* or hemacc* or haemacc* or hydrocolloid*) #5 (#1 OR #2 OR #3 OR #4) #6 MeSH descriptor Fluid Therapy explode all trees in MeSH products #7 MeSH descriptor Plasma Volume explode all trees #8 (fluid* or volume or plasma or rehydrat* or blood or oral) near1 (replac* or therapy or substitut* or restor* or resuscitat* or rehydrat*) #9 (#6 OR #7 OR #8) #10 (#5 AND #9) #11 (#10), from 2007 to 2011

MEDLINE (Ovid) (1948 to November Week 3 2011) 1. exp Albumins/ 2. exp plasma/ 3. exp colloids/ 4. (colloid* or albumin* or albumen* or plasma* or starch* or dextran* or gelofus* or hemacc* or haemacc* or hydrocolloid*).ti,ab. 5. 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 6. Exp Plasma volume/ 7. Exp Fluid Therapy/ 8. ((fluid* or volume or plasma or rehydrat* or blood or oral) adj1 (replac* or therapy or substitut* or restor* or resuscitat* or rehydrat*)).ab,ti. 9. 6 or 7 or 8 10. 5 and 9

EMBASE (Ovid) (1974 to 2011 Week 47) 1. exp ALBUMIN/ 2. exp HYDROCOLLOID/ 3. exp PLASMA/ 4. (colloid* or albumin* or albumen* or plasma* or starch* or dextran* or gelofus* or hemacc* or haemacc* or hydrocolloid*).ti,ab. 5. 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 6. exp Fluid Therapy/ 7. exp Plasma volume/ 8. ((fluid* or volume or plasma or rehydrat* or blood or oral) adj1 (replac* or therapy or substitut* or restor* or resuscitat* or rehydrat*)).ab,ti. 9. 6 or 7 or 8 10. 5 and 9 11. exp Randomized Controlled Trial/ 12. exp controlled clinical trial/ 13. randomi?ed.ab,ti. 14. placebo.ab. 15. *Clinical Trial/ 16. randomly.ab. 17. trial.ti. 18. 11 or 12 or 13 or 14 or 15 or 16 or 17 19. exp animal/ not (exp human/ and exp animal/) 20. 18 not 19 21. 10 and 20 22. (2007* or 2008* or 2009* or 2010* or 2011*).em. 23. 21 and 22

ISI Web of Science: Science Citation Index Expanded (1970 to 1 December 2011), ISI Web of Science: Conference Proceedings Citation Index‐Science (1990 to 1 December 2011) #1 Topic=((colloid* or albumin* or albumen* or plasma* or starch* or dextran* or gelofus* or hemacc* or haemacc* or hydrocolloid*)) AND Topic=((fluid* or volume or plasma or rehydrat* or blood or oral) NEAR/1 (replac* or therapy or substitut* or restor* or resuscitat* or rehydrat*)) #2 TS=((singl* OR doubl* OR trebl* OR tripl*) NEAR/1 (blind* OR mask*)) OR TS=((clinical OR control* OR placebo OR random*) NEAR/1 (trial* or group* or study or studies or placebo or controlled)) NOT TI=(Animal* or rat or rats or rodent* or mouse or mice or murine or dog or dogs or canine* or cat or cats or feline* or rabbit or rabbits or pig or pigs or porcine or swine or sheep or ovine* or guinea pig*) #3 #1 and #2

CINAHL (EBSCO) (1982 to 2011) S1. (fluid* or volume or plasma or rehydrat* or blood or oral) N3 (replac* or therapy or substitut* or restor* or resuscitat* or rehydrat*) S2. colloid* or albumin* or albumen* or plasma* or starch* or dextran* or gelofus* or hemacc* or haemacc* or hydrocolloid* S3. S1 and S2 (limit to Publication Type: Randomized Controlled Trial)

PubMed [www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez/] (searched 1 December 2011: Limit‐Humans, published in the last 90 days) #1((randomized controlled trial[pt] OR controlled clinical trial[pt]) OR (randomized OR randomised OR randomly OR placebo[tiab]) OR (trial[ti]) OR ("Clinical Trials as Topic"[MeSH Major Topic])) NOT (("Animals"[Mesh]) NOT ("Humans"[Mesh] AND "Animals"[Mesh])) #2 (fluid* or volume or plasma or rehydrat* or blood or oral) and (replac* or therapy or substitut* or restor* or resuscitat* or rehydrat*) #3 (colloid* or albumin* or albumen* or plasma* or starch* or dextran* or gelofus* or hemacc* or haemacc* or hydrocolloid*) #4 (("Albumins"[Mesh]) OR "Colloids"[Mesh]) OR "Plasma"[Mesh] #5 #3 or #4 #6 #1 and #2 and #5

NRR up to issue 1, 2007 #1 (colloid* or albumin* or albumen* or plasma* or starch* or dextran* or gelofus* or hemacc* or haemacc* or hydrocolloid*) #2 ((plasma* or fluid* or volum*) and (therap* or restor* or resuscita* or substitut* or replac*)) #3 #1 and #2

ZETOC searched on 23 March, 2007 Colloid* fluid* resusc*