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Electrolyte disturbances
Essentials 1 Sodium disorders are relatively common in hospitalized patients and elderly people. 2 The brain is most at risk from acute hyponatraemia because the osmotically expanded intracellular volume may induce increased intracranial pressure (hyponatraemic encephalopathy). 3 Treatment of hyponatraemia…