Traumatic Brain Injury Patients With a Glasgow Coma Scale Score of ≤8, Cerebral Edema, and/or a Basal Skull Fracture are More Susceptible to Developing Hyponatremia

This study investigated the epidemiology of hyponatremia following TBI. Methods: Patients who were admitted to our hospital with moderate or severe TBI were analyzed retrospectively. The relationship between the occurrence of hyponatremia and age, sex, type of injury, Glasgow coma scale (GCS) score, whether the patient underwent surgery, and the presence of cerebral edema and basal skull fracture was analyzed statistically using a χ2 test and multivariate logistic regression analysis. Results: Out of the 136 patients recruited for the study (81 males and 55 females; mean±SD age of 48±13 y), 56 suffered from hyponatremia (ie, serum sodium level 0.05), sex (P=0.347), or surgical history (P=0.492) but that it was related to the type of injury (P=0.031), a GCS score ≤8 (P
Source: Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology - Category: Anesthesiology Tags: Clinical Investigations Source Type: research