F Javier Montero-Pérez, Ángela María Cobos Requena, Juan González Del Castillo, Javier Jacob, Eric Jorge García-Lamberechts, Pascual Piñera Salmerón, Aitor Alquézar-Arbé, Sira Aguiló, Cesáreo Fernández Alonso, Guillermo Burillo-Putze, María Calderón Caro, Ángel Iván Díaz Salado, Enrique Martín Mojarro, Patricia Eiroa-Hernández, Patricia Parra-Esquivel, Juan José López Pérez, Martín Ruiz Grinspan, Ivet Gina Osorio Quispe, Matilde González Tejera, Leticia Serrano Lázaro, Begoña Espinosa Fernández, Lidia Fuentes, Coral Suero Méndez, María Del Valle Toro-Gallardo, Fahd Beddar Chaib, Paula Pedraza Ramírez, Òscar Miró
OBJECTIVES: To study baseline factors associated with hypo- and hypernatremia in older patients attended in emergency departments (EDs) and explore the association between these dysnatremias and indicators of severity in an emergency. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We included patients attended in 52 Spanish hospital EDs aged 65 years or older during a designated week. All included patients had to have a plasma sodium concentration on record. Patients were distributed in 3 groups according to sodium levels: normal, 135-145 mmol/L; hyponatremia, 135 mmol/L; or hypernatremia > 145 mmol/L...
August 2023: Emergencias: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Medicina de Emergencias