Osmole gap in neurologic-neurosurgical intensive care unit: Its normal value, calculation, and relationship with mannitol serum concentrations

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 986-991

  García Morales, Edgar J ^a   Cariappa, Rohit ^a   Parvin, Curtis A ^a   Scott, Mitchell G ^a   Diringer, Michael N ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Formulas; Mannitol; Mannitol serum concentrations; Neurologic neurosurgical intensive care unit; Osmolality; Osmolarity; Osmole gap

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; MANNITOL; POTASSIUM; SODIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; NORMAL VALUE; OSMOLALITY; OSMOLARITY; OSMOLE GAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; MANNITOL; MIDDLE AGED; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 1842637586     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000120057.04528.60     Document Type: Article

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