Sodium Rising: Deciphering the Code.

Keywords: hypernatremia; hyponatremia; intensive care unit; mortality; sodium EN hypernatremia hyponatremia intensive care unit mortality sodium 2143 2145 3 11/19/21 20211201 NES 211201 Sodium is one of the commonest serum laboratory tests in ICU patients, with frequent abnormal results. After all, except in patients managed for treatment of hyponatremia, the sodium increase in normonatremic patients would lead in the direction of hypernatremia. Darmon et al ([5]) in another large database with 11,125 patients found that both moderate and severe hyponatremia and mild, moderate, and severe hypernatremia were independently associated with day-30 mortality. [Extracted from the article]

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