Can patients with mild post-operative hyponatraemia following elective arthroplasty be discharged safely? A large-scale service evaluation suggests they can

CONCLUSION: Post-operative hyponatraemia is common and may be a marker of pre-operative vulnerability. In these cohorts, it was not independently associated with LOS, re-attendance or re-admission to hospital. We suggest that otherwise well patients with mild hyponatraemia can be safely discharged earlier than is often the case and may not require extensive investigation. Further examination and research is required to develop a pre-operative approach to predict which patients will develop significant post-operative hyponatraemia.PMID:34663082 | DOI:10.1177/00045632211051526
Source: Clinical Biochemistry - Category: Biochemistry Authors: Source Type: research