NCT02012660

Relationship Between Heat Wave and Hyponatremia

Relationship Between Heat Wave and Moderate to Severe Hyponatremia in the Emergency Departement of Primary and Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 28,734 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Geneva · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The objective of this study is to explore the relationship between moderate to severe hyponatremia and heat.

Detailed description

We will explore the relationship between heat wave and moderate and severe hyponatremia in a population of adult patients admitted in the emergency department of a primary and tertiary care teaching urban hospital. We will compare the prevalence of hyponatremia between summer and winter periods. We will describe the types of observed hyponatremia and describe the characteristics of the patients suffering of moderate to severe hyponatremia.

Conditions

• Hyponatremia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Seasonality	The impact of high temperature during summer months on the prevalence of hyponatremia will be explores.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-02-01
• Primary completion: 2015-04-01
• Completion: 2015-04-01
• First posted: 2013-12-16
• Last updated: 2015-04-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland