In patients with hypernatremia of sufficient duration to enable brain cells to undergo osmotic adaptation, the risk for intracerebral hemorrhage from cell shrinkage is decreased, but a hypertonic intracellular environment with the accumulation of new intracellular solutes can perturb normal cellular function...
Management of hyponatremia In patients who require non-emergency treatment in the hospital setting: - In patients with chronic severe hyponatremia who have mild to moderate symptoms (eg, dizziness, forgetfulness, gait disturbance, nausea, vomiting, confusion, and lethargy), hypertonic saline (typically ...
The Student's t-test, Mann-Whitney U test and Chi-square test were used for statistical data analysis. P0.05 were considered significant.Results: One hundred and eleven of 2015 (5.2%) patients had hypernatremia. Fifty eight (52.25%) infants were male and sodium ranging was from 146 to ...