Association Between Disease Severity and Calcium Concentration in Critically Ill Patients Admitted to Intensive Care Unit | Zendy

Sarvin Sanaie | Zendy; Ata Mahmoodpoor | Zendy; Hadi Hamishehkar | Zendy; Kamran Shadvar | Zendy; Nasim Salimi | Zendy; Majid Montazer | Zendy; Afshin Iranpour | Zendy; Elnaz Faramarzi | Zendy

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Association Between Disease Severity and Calcium Concentration in Critically Ill Patients Admitted to Intensive Care Unit

Author(s) -

Sarvin Sanaie,

Ata Mahmoodpoor,

Hadi Hamishehkar,

Kamran Shadvar,

Nasim Salimi,

Majid Montazer,

Afshin Iranpour,

Elnaz Faramarzi

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

anesthesiology and pain medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.438

H-Index - 26

eISSN - 2228-7531

pISSN - 2228-7523

DOI - 10.5812/aapm.57583

Subject(s) - medicine , intensive care unit , calcium , calcium metabolism , critically ill , severity of illness , disease , intensive care , prospective cohort study , correlation , intensive care medicine , geometry , mathematics

A significant correlation was found between total and ionized calcium, but there was not any significant correlation between corrected and ionized calcium. Hypocalcemia is a predictor of disease severity and mortality. We recommend measuring ionized calcium concentration for patients admitted to ICU.

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