Hyperchloremia, not concomitant hypernatremia, independently predicts early mortality in critically ill moderate-severe traumatic brain injury patients - Ditch KL, Flahive JM, West AM, Osgood ML, Muehlschlegel S.

BACKGROUND: Hypernatremia has been associated with mortality in neurocritically ill patients, with and without traumatic brain injury (TBI). These studies, however, lack concomitant adjustment for hyperchloremia as a physiologically co-occurring finding de...
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