Effect of hypernatremia mortality,hospital stay time and cost in neurocritically ill patients
Abstract：Objective To study the incidence of hypernatremia and its effect on mortality ,hospital stay time and cost in neurocrtically ill patients .Methods The clinical data about 274 neurocriti-cally ill patients (52 died ,222 survived) admitted to our department were retrospectively ana-lyzed .Hypernatremia was diagnosed when the serum sodium level was >150 mmol/L .Results Of the 52 died patients and the 222 survived patients ,26 (50 .0% ) and 23 (10 .4% ) were diagnosed with hypernatremia respectively (P=0 .000) .Hypernatremia was an independent risk factor for the death of neurocritically ill patients (OR=5 .08 ,95% CI:2 .21-11 .63 ,P=0 .000)and was pos-itively related with their hospital stay time (days)and cost although no significant difference was found between them (β=0 .023 ,P=0 .756 ;β=0 .094 ,P=0 .200) .Conclusion The incidence of hypernatremia is high in neurocritically ill patients .Hypernatremia is an independent risk factor for their death and positively related with their hospital stay time and cost .
Keywords：hypernatremiacritical illnesshospital mortalitynervous system diseaseslength of stayintensive care units
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 951-953 )