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To evaluate this association, we performed a propensity score matched retrospective cohort study with data collected from 1,674 children with CM admitted to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi from 2000 to 2018. After matching of participants by covariate balancing propensity score weighting, children who received an IV fluid bolus had increased mortality risk (odds ratio [OR]: 1.92; 95% CI: 1.36\u20132.71) compared with those who did not. When stratified by admission systolic blood pressure (SBP), children with an SBP greater than 100 mm Hg receiving bolus fluids had increased mortality (OR: 3.15; 95% CI: 1.81\u20135.48) compared with those not receiving bolus fluids. In children with an SBP \u2264100 mm Hg at admission, receiving bolus IV fluids did not change mortality (OR: 1.44; 95% CI: 0.91\u20132.26). Bolus IV fluids are an ineffective therapeutic intervention in children with CM and are harmful in those with normal or elevated admission SBPs. 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