What is your decision process on decreasing the sodium goal for patients with cerebral edema?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
In my practice, when treating an adult patient with cerebral edema, we avoid hyponatremia but do not set a specific sodium goal. Rather, we titrate therapies (e.g., mannitol, hypertonic saline) to achieve a specific ICP goal (e.g., ICP < 22 mmHg). We stop administering mannitol if the osmolar gap...
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at Novant Health I usually keep sodium on the higher end when weani...
at University of Pennsylvania I agree with Dr. @Meziane Guerch's comment. If a p...
I usually keep sodium on the higher end when weani...
I agree with Dr. @Meziane Guerch's comment. If a p...