Prevention of episodic water intoxication with target weight procedure
- 1 March 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 144 (3) , 365-366
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.144.3.365
Abstract
An effective practical, and inexpensive method of preventing water intoxication in inpatients is described. The procedure used the relationship between acute changes in body water and body weight to predict body weights associated with severe hyponatremia.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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