Profile of Hypernatremia in a Tertiary care hospital: A review of 175 cases over a 5 year period in a South Indian population

Autor:	Alexander George, Solomon T Abraham, Reena Alexander
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Hospitalized patients business.industry Common disease Head injury Prevalence Tertiary care hospital medicine.disease Tertiary care medicine Hypernatremia business South indian population
Zdroj:	International Journal of Medical Research and Review. 6:159-165
ISSN:	2320-8686 2321-127X
DOI:	10.17511/ijmrr.2018.i03.05
Popis:	0bjective: The aim of this study was to ascertain the profile of hypernatremia with an emphasis on the prevalence, development, progress and clinical outcomes in hospitalized patients. Materials and Methods: This study was carried out at a tertiary care centre in south India from March 2011 to march 2016 and included 175 consecutive hospitalized patients who developed hypernatremia during the course of their management. Results: A total of 5558 patients were admitted as in-patients of which 175 patients developed hypernatremia resulting in a prevalence rate of 3.14%. The majority of patients were males -130 (74.28%) and 57 (32.55%) of the hypernatremic patients were geriatric. The most common disease condition of patients who developed hypernatremia was head injury-37(21.1%) followed by respiratory disease-23(13.1%), sepsis-17(9.7%) and transient hypernatremia-17(9.7%). 21 patients (12%) ended in mortality while the rest 154 (88%) recovered and were discharged from hospital. Patients in the mortality group were found to have higher levels of hypernatremia average- 162 when compared to those that survived 151 (p
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