Hypernatremia risk factors
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
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Overview
Patients at risk of hypernatremia include those patients who have impaired thirst (such as those in coma or those with a neurologic deficit) and those with a high rate of insensible losses of free water such as burn victims and patients with diarrhea.