Can profound hypernatremic dehydration ever be a good thing?

• Auteurs principaux: William E Novotny (Auteur), Matthew R Ledoux (Auteur), Cindy P Keel (Auteur), Devon Kuehn (Auteur)
• Format: Livre
• Publié: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Sujets: article
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A 3 month-old infant with severe hypernatremia (212 mEq/L) and hyperkalemia (11.7 mEq/L) presented with no electrocardiographic cardiotoxicity. The absence of hyperkalemic electrocardiographic conduction abnormalities raised the hypothesis that the presence of hypernatremia may have been cardioprote...