Cholera Rehydration: Dehydration, Fluids and Antibiotic (GTFCC 2024)
Classifies dehydration in suspected cholera and gives the GTFCC plan and fluid volumes.
Open the calculator → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.
Example
- Patient group
- Child or adult (not pregnant, no severe malnutrition)
- Age in years
- 3
- Weight in kg
- 14
- Mental state
- irritable
- Pulse
- rapid
- Breathing
- normal
- Eyes
- sunken
- Drinking
- thirsty
- Skin pinch
- slow
- High purging, 1 stool an hour or more
- No
The other 2 values
- First 4 hours of rehydration failed
- No
- HIV
- No
Result: Some dehydration: ORS 1,050 mL over 4 hours (75 mL/kg, about 263 mL/h).
The tool opens with these values already filled in. Replace them with your own.
What you enter
- Patient group
- Age in years
- Weight in kg (needed for Plans B and C)
- Mental state
- Pulse
- Breathing
- Eyes
- Drinking
- Skin pinch
- Systolic BP, mmHg (pregnancy, 2nd or 3rd trimester)
The other 4 fields
- Fetal heart rate (pregnancy)
- High purging, 1 stool an hour or more
- First 4 hours of rehydration failed
- HIV
How this is calculated
Citation
Global Task Force on Cholera Control. Evaluating dehydration and Plans A, B and C job aids, 12 July 2024; cholera patient treatment flowchart v1.0, 2024; antibiotics technical note, rev. October 2022; pregnancy note, 2020; severe acute malnutrition job aid. Read the source ↗
A reference and educational tool. Not medical, legal, or financial advice, and not a substitute for clinician judgment.