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First received: September 07, 2023

Clinical Trial: Plasma Sodium and Sodium Administration in the ICU

Study Status: Completed

Recruit Status: RECRUITING

Condition: Hypernatremia

Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL


Official Title: Plasma Sodium and Sodium Administration in the ICU. A Retrospective Observational Study.

Brief Summary: Patients in the Intensive Care Unit often present with low levels of plasma sodium and are therefore often administered high amounts of sodium, both as an additive to intravenous glucose solutions and as a constituent of various drugs and infusion fluids.Recent findings question the benefit of these large quantities of sodium and raise the question whether the individual physician takes the total sodium administration into account when sodium additives are prescribed.It can also be suspected that sodium…

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