Clinical practice guideline on diagnosis and treatment of hyponatraemia
- Spasovski, Goce
- Vanholder, Raymond
- Allolio, Bruno
- Annane, Djillali
- Ball, Steve
- Bichet, Daniel D.G.
- Decaux, Guy
- Fenske, Wiebke
- Hoorn, Ewout E.J.
- Ichai, Carole
- Joannidis, Michael
- Soupart, Alain
- Zietse, Robert
- Haller, Maria
- Van Der Veer, Sabine
- van Biesen, Wim
- Nagler, Evi
DOIAbstract
Hyponatraemia, defined as a serum sodium concentration <135 mmol/l, is the most common disorder of body fluid and electrolyte balance encountered in clinical practice. It can lead to a wide spectrum of clinical symptoms, from subtle to severe or even life threatening, and is associated with increased mortality, morbidity and length of hospital stay in patients presenting with a range of conditions. Despite this, the management of patients remains problematic. The prevalence of hyponatraemia in widely different conditions and the fact that hyponatraemia is managed by clinicians with a broad variety of backgrounds have fostered diverse institution- and speciality-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. To obtain a common and holistic vie...
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