The present study described the proportion of patients receiving continuous IV fluids versus not receiving continu- ous IV fluids on a single day at our tertiary teaching hospital. In addition, we sought to describe differences in patients who received continuous IV fluid versus no IV fluids. Simple ana- lytical procedures are appropriate to assist with the analysis and description of the collected data. In response, data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical proce- dures. For non-normally distributed variables and for between-group comparisons, Fisher’s exact test (differences in proportions) and the Mann–Whitney U-test (differences in central tendency) were used as appropriate. All analyses were performed using InStat 3.1a (GraphPad Software, La Jolla, CA, USA). A P-value