electrolyte disorder salt-water disorder
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: All adult hospitalised patients with hypotonic hyponatremia
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: • Severe symptomatic hyponatremia in need of intensive care treatment and / or of acute correction with 3% saline • Non-hypotonic hyponatremia with plasma osmolality >300 mOsm • End of life care (palliative treatment) • End stage kidney disease (dialysis) • Acute liver failure • Wernicke encephalopathy • Hepatic encephalopathy during last 2 months • Hepatorenal syndrome • Patients in the isolation ward due to haematological diseases • Pregnancy / breastfeeding • Patients hospitalized for a predetermined fixed duration of 3 days or less (e.g. inpatient chemotherapy treatment)
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The primary outcome is the combined risk of death or rehospitalization within 30 days. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| • Mortality within 30 days and 1 year • Rehospitalization within 30 days and 1 year • Time to death in days • Time to first re-hospitalization in days • Length of index hospital stay in days • Number of falls within 30 days • Number of fractures within 30 days and 1 year • Sodium normalization rate at discharge of index hospitalisation • Change of plasma sodium level from study inclusion until discharge of index hospitalisation • Change of plasma sodium level during the hospitalization • Maximum sodium correction during index hospitalisation • Time in days until first sodium normalization during index hospitalisation • Time in days spent in normonatremia during index hospitalisation | — |
Countries
Netherlands