Optimum Fluid Therapy in Acute Pancreatitis Needs an Alchemist

The 2009 discovery of water on the moon by India’s moon mission Chandrayan 1 and an on-board NASA’s mineralogy mapper boosted human’s quest for extraterrestrial habitats in exotic locales, for “water is life to creatures” (from Sanskrit Jivanam Jivinãm Jivaha) if not the elusive elixir of life. Thus, ancient civilizations settled around great rivers—the Tigris and Euphrates (Mesopotamia), Ganges (India), and Nile (Egypt).