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New hyponatraemia diagnostic algorithm

Print version 2 – Hyponatraemia page 342 – A new Hyponatraemia diagnostic algorithm has replaced the old one to address the errors in the old algorithm regarding volume status in cerebral salt wasting syndrome and serum urate in SIAD.

Hyponatraemia flowchart errors

Print version 1 – Hyponatraemia – page 342 has the following errors: SIAD also commonly has low serum urate (not normal as on the chart); cerebral salt wasting syndrome usually has some degree of hypovolaemia (not euvolaemia as on the chart). A flowchart that corrects these errors has been included in Print version 2.