Determination of Electrolytes in Critical Illness Patients at Different pH Ranges: Whom Shall We Believe, the Blood Gas Analysis or the Laboratory Autoanalyzer?
Joint Authors
Michels, Guido
Hohmann, Christopher
Pfister, Roman
Kuhr, Kathrin
Merkle, Julia
Hinzmann, Julian
Source
Critical Care Research and Practice
Issue
Vol. 2019, Issue 2019 (31 Dec. 2019), pp.1-6, 6 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2019-07-15
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
6
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Introduction.
The determination of the electrolytes sodium and potassium is essential in critical care.
In daily clinical practice, both the blood gas analyzer (ABG) and the laboratory autoanalyzer (AA) are generally applied.
However, there is still uncertainty regarding the convergence of the prementioned assays, and data about the comparability dependent on the pH value are still lacking.
Materials and Methods.
One hundred samples from intensive care unit patients with a range in pH values between 7.20 and 7.49 were evaluated in this retrospective cohort study.
All patients suffered an infarct-related cardiogenic shock and were intubated and not under therapeutical hypothermia at the time of blood collection.
We used scatter plots to compare different distributions of sodium and potassium values between the methods.
Comparability of the analyses was assessed using the Bland–Altmann approach, and intraclass correlations (ICC) as estimates of interrater reliability were calculated.
Results.
The mean potassium level measured on ABG was 4.33 mmol/L (SD 0.48 mmol/L), and the value obtained using the AA was 4.40 mmol/L (SD 0.55 mmol/L).
A Bland–Altman comparison for total potassium measurements revealed that the limits of agreement were small (−0.241 to 0.391 mmol/L).
Total ICC displayed a very good correlation of 0.949.
For sodium, we found average values of 140 mmol/L (SD 5.20 mmol/L) in the AA and 140 mmol/L (SD 5.80 mmol/L) in the ABG assessment.
Contrarily, the Bland–Altman comparison for sodium displayed that the 95% limits of agreement were very wide (−5.99 to 6.59 mmol/L) for total measurements as well as in every pH subgroup.
Total ICC only reached a value of 0.830.
Conclusion.
Data from our single-center study indicate that urgent and vital decisions based on potassium measurements can be made by trusting the value obtained on the ABG machine irrespective of pH values.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Hohmann, Christopher& Pfister, Roman& Kuhr, Kathrin& Merkle, Julia& Hinzmann, Julian& Michels, Guido. 2019. Determination of Electrolytes in Critical Illness Patients at Different pH Ranges: Whom Shall We Believe, the Blood Gas Analysis or the Laboratory Autoanalyzer?. Critical Care Research and Practice،Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-6.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1129139
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Hohmann, Christopher…[et al.]. Determination of Electrolytes in Critical Illness Patients at Different pH Ranges: Whom Shall We Believe, the Blood Gas Analysis or the Laboratory Autoanalyzer?. Critical Care Research and Practice No. 2019 (2019), pp.1-6.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1129139
American Medical Association (AMA)
Hohmann, Christopher& Pfister, Roman& Kuhr, Kathrin& Merkle, Julia& Hinzmann, Julian& Michels, Guido. Determination of Electrolytes in Critical Illness Patients at Different pH Ranges: Whom Shall We Believe, the Blood Gas Analysis or the Laboratory Autoanalyzer?. Critical Care Research and Practice. 2019. Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-6.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1129139
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1129139