RECENT clinical studies have demonstrated that osmotic diuresis, with or without urinary alkalinization, will accelerate the renal excretion of drug in patients with barbiturate intoxication. 1–5 When ...
If a patient with chronic hyponatremia presents with severe symptoms (e.g. a seizure), the clinician should suspect that an element of acute hyponatremia, and/or an underlying central nervous system ...