Follow-up
- patients should be reviewed by their family practitioner or in a hospital outpatient clinic every few months
- creatinine and electrolytes should be measured at least every six months
- more frequent monitoring of electrolytes will be required in particular circumstances e.g. initiation and adjustment of dose an ACE inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker, alteration of diuretic therapy, use of a combination of loop and thiazide diuretics, use of an aldosterone agonist such as spironolactone
- if patients are symptomatic or there is a deterioration then follow-up should be more frequent
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