Exercise-associated hyponatraemia on the Kokoda Track

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 194, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 247-248

  Pattison, David A ^a   Walters, Tomos E ^a   Seal, Eric ^b  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METOCLOPRAMIDE; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TEMAZEPAM;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; COMA; CONVULSION; DETERIORATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; NAUSEA; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; SEIZURE; SHORT SURVEY; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; VOMITING; WALKING;

EID: 79952456249     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2011.tb02956.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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