"Statement of the Third International Exercise-Associated Hyponatremia " by Tamara Hew-Butler, Mitchell H. Rosner et al.

Health Sciences Faculty Publications

Title

Statement of the Third International Exercise-Associated Hyponatremia Consensus Development Conference, Carlsbad, California, 2015

Authors

Tamara Hew-Butler, Oakland UniversityFollow
Mitchell H. Rosner, University of Virginia Health SystemFollow
Sandra Fowkes-Godek, West Chester University
Jonathan P. Dugas, The Vitality GroupFollow
Martin D. Hoffman, University of California Davis Medical CenterFollow
Douglas P. Lewis, Via Christi Hospitals Wichita, Inc.Follow
Ronald J. Maughan, Loughborough UniversityFollow
Kevin C. Miller, Central Michigan UniversityFollow
Scott J. Montain, United States Army Research Institute of Environmental MedicineFollow
Nancy J. Rehrer, University of OtagoFollow
William O. Roberts, University of MinnesotaFollow
Ian R. Rogers, St John of God Murdoch Hospital and University of Notre DameFollow
Arthur J. Siegel, Harvard Medical SchoolFollow
Kristin J. Stuempfle, Gettysburg CollegeFollow
James Winger, Loyola Stritch School of MedicineFollow
Joseph G. Verbalis, Georgetown University Medical CenterFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-2015

Department 1

Health Sciences

Abstract

The third International Exercise-Associated Hyponatremia (EAH) Consensus Development Conference convened in Carlsbad, California in February 2015 with a panel of 17 international experts. The delegates represented 4 countries and 9 medical and scientific sub-specialties pertaining to athletic training, exercise physiology, sports medicine, water/sodium metabolism, and body fluid homeostasis. The primary goal of the panel was to review the existing data on EAH and update the 2008 Consensus Statement.¹ This document serves to replace the second International EAH Consensus Development Conference Statement and launch an educational campaign designed to address the morbidity and mortality associated with a preventable and treatable fluid imbalance.

The following statement is a summary of the data synthesized by the 2015 EAH Consensus Panel and represents an evolution of the most current knowledge on EAH. This document will summarize the most current information on the prevalence, etiology, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of EAH for medical personnel, athletes, athletic trainers, and the greater public. The EAH Consensus Panel strove to clearly articulate what we agreed upon, did not agree upon, and did not know, including minority viewpoints that were supported by clinical experience and experimental data. Further updates will be necessary to both: (1) remain current with our understanding and (2) critically assess the effectiveness of our present recommendations. Suggestions for future research and educational strategies to reduce the incidence and prevalence of EAH are provided at the end of the document as well as areas of controversy that remain in this topic. [excerpt]

Copyright Note

This is the publisher's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.

DOI

10.1097/JSM.0000000000000221

Recommended Citation

Hew-Butler, Tamara, et al. "Statement of the Third International Exercise-Associated Hyponatremia Consensus Development Conference, Carlsbad, California, 2015." Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine 25.4 (July 2015), 303-320.