PURPOSE: We estimated the proportion of indirect ion selective electrode (ISE) plasma sodium analyses in intensive care unit (ICU) and hospital wide, exhibiting important disagreement with direct ISE results in relation to abnormal plasma protein concentrations. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Direct and indirect ISE plasma sodium measurements were performed on 346 clinical specimens selected to reflect low, normal, or high total protein concentrations. Important intermethod disagreement was defined as |4| mmol/L or higher. Results were extrapolated to a 3-month laboratory series of 48,033 indirect ISE assays, including 2877 samples from intensive care. RESULTS: Intermethod sodium disagreement at |4| mmol/L or higher was predicted for 25% of ICU samples. Almost all (97%) occurred in hypoproteinemic samples where indirect tended to exceed direct ISE estimates. Hospital wide, such disagreement was projected to occur in 8% of samples, of which the majority (70%) were also hypoproteinemic. CONCLUSIONS: Important disagreement between indirect and direct ISE sodium measurements may exist in up to 1 in 4 ICU specimens and 1 in 12 hospital-wide samples. The main problem is indirect ISE overestimation associated with hypoproteinemia, potentially leading to misclassifications of pseudohypernatremia and pseudonormonatremia. We recommend that hospital laboratories consider standardization using direct ISE sodium measurement.
PURPOSE: We estimated the proportion of indirect ion selective electrode (ISE) plasma sodium analyses in intensive care unit (ICU) and hospital wide, exhibiting important disagreement with direct ISE results in relation to abnormal plasma protein concentrations. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Direct and indirect ISE plasma sodium measurements were performed on 346 clinical specimens selected to reflect low, normal, or high total protein concentrations. Important intermethod disagreement was defined as |4| mmol/L or higher. Results were extrapolated to a 3-month laboratory series of 48,033 indirect ISE assays, including 2877 samples from intensive care. RESULTS: Intermethod sodium disagreement at |4| mmol/L or higher was predicted for 25% of ICU samples. Almost all (97%) occurred in hypoproteinemic samples where indirect tended to exceed direct ISE estimates. Hospital wide, such disagreement was projected to occur in 8% of samples, of which the majority (70%) were also hypoproteinemic. CONCLUSIONS: Important disagreement between indirect and direct ISE sodium measurements may exist in up to 1 in 4 ICU specimens and 1 in 12 hospital-wide samples. The main problem is indirect ISE overestimation associated with hypoproteinemia, potentially leading to misclassifications of pseudohypernatremia and pseudonormonatremia. We recommend that hospital laboratories consider standardization using direct ISE sodium measurement.
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