Safe Practice Recommendation:
Here are suggestions for avoiding errors in patients with hypernatremia:

Problem: The treatment of severe hypernatremia can be challenging, especially in patients with pre-existing conditions that may seem to limit therapeutic options. Such a situation resulted in an ill-conceived decision to give sterile water for an intravenous (IV) injection to an elderly patient who had been admitted to the intensive-care unit (ICU) with pneumonia, congestive [...]