80025526: Optimizing Diagnosis and Management of Hyponatremia in the Hospitalized Patient

Link to activity:
http://www.jhasim1.com/index.aspx?case_id=44

Hyponatremia is the most common electrolyte abnormality that occurs in hospitalized patients, with perioperative hyponatremia being recognized as a serious in-hospital complication. Hyponatremia is reported to be associated with increased morbidity and mortality among patients with heart, liver, or neurologic disease, and the elderly. Although several disease states may be responsible for the development of hyponatremia in hospitalized patients, medications may contribute to this electrolyte disorder as well. With the emergence of hospitalists as key providers of inpatient care, there is a need to educate this growing body of physicians, who need to care for an increasingly complex patient population. This webcast will describe a standardized approach to diagnosing hyponatremia to provide hospitalists with the expertise and skills to deliver the best possible care and improve patient outcomes.

GOAL

To provide hospitalists, general internal medicine faculty, and residents with up-to-date information on methods for diagnosing hyponatremia.

Link to activity:
http://www.jhasim1.com/index.aspx?case_id=44

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It is the policy of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine that the speaker and provider disclose real or apparent conflicts of interest relating to the topics of this educational activity, and also disclose discussions of unlabeled/unapproved uses of drugs or devices during their presentation(s). Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine OCME has established policies in place that will identify and resolve all conflicts of interest prior to this educational activity. Detailed disclosure will be made in the activity handout materials.