Risk factors for hospital-acquired hypernatremia among critically ill medical patients in a setting utilizing a preventive free water protocol: Do we need to do more?

Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 28-33

  Varun, Sundar ^a   Bhaskar, Emmanuel ^a   Abraham, Georgi ^b   Arunkumar, Anandabhavan Sukumaramenon ^a   Renuka, Muthiah ^a  

^a SRI RAMACHANDRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b MADRAS MEDICAL MISSION HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Critical care; hospital; hypernatremia; mortality

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTE; SODIUM ION; WATER;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEMALE; FLUID BALANCE; FLUID INTAKE; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED HYPERNATREMIA; HUMAN; HYPERNATREMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POPULATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; RISK FACTOR; SALT INTAKE; SEQUENTIAL ORGAN FAILURE ASSESSMENT SCORE; SEX; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SODIUM INTAKE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84879351379     PISSN: 09725229     EISSN: 1998359X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0972-5229.112157     Document Type: Article

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