ea0015p47 | Clinical practice/governance and case reports | SFEBES2008
Hussain Syed Sufyan
, Harborne Alexandra
, Britton Mary
Objective: To audit the investigation and diagnosis of severe hyponatraemia (serum sodium ≤125 mmol/l) in elderly (age ≥65 years) medical in-patients admitted with this problem.Method: Standards for the investigation and diagnosis of hyponatraemia were designed after literature review and discussions with local endocrinologists. Elderly patients with hyponatraemia on admission were identified retrospectively over a 12 month period from the la...