{"id":471,"date":"2021-11-18T05:22:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T05:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/?p=471"},"modified":"2021-11-18T05:23:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T05:23:21","slug":"new-cpg-electrolyte-abnormalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/new-cpg-electrolyte-abnormalities\/","title":{"rendered":"New CPG: Electrolyte abnormalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Electrolyte_abnormalities\/\">Electrolyte abnormalities<\/a> CPG adds to the existing electrolyte disturbance topics that have been developed by the CPG Committee. Other new topics are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Hypermagnesaemia\/\">Hypermagnesaemia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Hypomagnesaemia\/\">Hypomagnesaemia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The Key points for the CPG are<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Children with any acute illness or condition affecting the input, distribution, or output of electrolytes and\/or fluid in the body, are at risk of electrolyte abnormalities<\/li>\n<li>Critically abnormal test results should be acted on in a timely manner. Errors in sample collection or processing may lead to inaccurate electrolyte values and it is essential to consider the clinical context<\/li>\n<li>Serum electrolyte reference ranges vary with different laboratories. Use age-appropriate normal ranges from your local pathology service<\/li>\n<li>Electrolyte abnormalities should be corrected by the oral\/enteral route when possible<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electrolyte abnormalities is a new CPG that will be considered for PIC endorsement in December 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11797,28,9503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individual-cpg-posts","category-news","category-newsletter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}