Listen along to Dr Sagen Zac-Varghese and Dr Elinor Roderick as they discuss hyponatraemia. Using analogies and a structured framework (a five-step approach), they talk you through diagnosing and managing people with hyponatraemia, walk you through a case and, illustrate how to discuss this with your patients.

Sagen Zac-Varghese is a consultant in diabetes, endocrinology and general internal medicine and lead for undergraduate students at the East and North Herts NHS Trust. She is the RCP education representative for the RCP Advisory Group on Nutrition Weight and Health.

Elinor Roderick is an academic foundation doctor at the East and North Herts Trust.

Links

European Society of Endocrinology Clinical guideline for the management of hyponatraemia

https://www.ese-hormones.org/publications/directory/ese-clinical-guideline-for-the-management-of-hyponatraemia/

Society for Endocrinology Emergency management of severe and moderately severely symptomatic hyponatraemia in adult patients

https://www.endocrinology.org/media/xhrhxhxm/emergency-management-of-severe-and-moderately-severely-symptomatic-hyponatraemia-in-adult-patients-2022.pdf

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