Incidence and Outcomes of Hypernatremia in Adult Neurological Non–Brain-Dead Patients Admitted to Tertiary Care Neurologic Institute: A Retrospective Study

Incidence and Outcomes of Hypernatremia in Adult Neurological Non–Brain-Dead Patients Admitted to Tertiary Care Neurologic Institute: A Retrospective Study

Background Hypernatremia is known to have high mortality and morbidity in patients with neurological disorders. However, in most studies, it is not clear whether hypernatremia associated with brain death has been excluded. Including brain-dead patients will spuriously give a very high mortality rate...

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Main Authors: Sritam S. Jena, Ramesh J. Venkatapura, Rita Christopher, Dhaval Shukla, Dhritiman Chakrabarti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2019-03-01
Series:Journal of Neuroanaesthesiology and Critical Care
Subjects:
head injury
hypernatremia
mortality
sodium disturbance
Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0039-1679191

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