Hypernatraemia in critically ill patients: too little water and too much salt
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Hypernatraemia in critically ill patients: too little water and too much salt.
BACKGROUND Our objective was to study the risk factors and mechanisms of hypernatraemia in critically ill patients, a common and potentially serious problem. METHODS In 2005, all patients admitted to the medical, surgical or neurological intensive care unit (ICU) of a university hospital were reviewed. A 1:2 matched case-control study was performed, defining cases as patients who developed a ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0931-0509,1460-2385
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfm831