Normal saline to dilute parenteral drugs and to keep catheters open is a major and preventable source of hypernatremia acquired in the intensive care unit

Journal of Critical Care

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 390-394

  Choo, Wai Ping ^a   Groeneveld, A B Johan ^b   Driessen, Ronald H ^a   Swart, Eleonora L ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Critically ill; Hypernatremia; Parenteral drugs; Risk factors; Sodium and fluid balance

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ADRENALIN; AMIODARONE; AMPHOTERICIN; CALCIUM GLUBIONATE; CEFOTAXIME; CLONIDINE; CREATININE; FENTANYL; FLUCLOXACILLIN; FUROSEMIDE; GLUCOSE; HALOPERIDOL; HYDROCORTISONE; IMIPENEM; INFUSION FLUID; METRONIDAZOLE; MIDAZOLAM; NICARDIPINE; NORADRENALIN; PANTOPRAZOLE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PROPOFOL; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THIAZIDE DIURETIC AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DILUTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FLUID BALANCE; HUMAN; HYPERNATREMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PROPHYLAXIS; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; AGED; BLOOD; CATHETER OCCLUSION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRUG FORMULATION; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGED; CATHETER OBSTRUCTION; CREATININE; DRUG COMPOUNDING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERNATREMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 84899943751     PISSN: 08839441     EISSN: 15578615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2014.01.025     Document Type: Article

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