Sodium and brain injury: Do we know what we are doing?

Critical Care

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Zygun, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANNITOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HYPERNATREMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MORTALITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NOTE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN INJURY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN INJURIES; HUMANS; HYPERNATREMIA; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; SALINE SOLUTION, HYPERTONIC;

EID: 77949911271     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc8014     Document Type: Note

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