Endocrine Abstracts

Background: The European Society of Endocrinology (ESE) published guidelines to standardise intravenous hypertonic saline (HTS) for severe symptomatic hyponatraemia in 2014. Two 150 mL boluses of 3.0% HTS are proposed, one after the other, to achieve an initial sodium rise of 5 mmol/l without waiting for an interval sodium result. ESE guidelines were adopted by our University Hospital in 2017. However, high rates of sodium overcorrection were observed, and the guidelines lacke...