PulmCrit- Overcoming occult diuretic resistance: Achieving diuresis without dehydration

Critically ill patients often strongly retain sodium. This may cause diuresis attempts to fail, if patients excrete dilute urine leading to a loss of water without loss of sodium. Such patients may seem to respond to diuresis, but in fact they are merely becoming progressively dehydrated and hypernatremic (occult diuresis resistance).

EMCrit by Josh Farkas.

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