Hyperchloremia in Intensive Care Unit Mortality: An Underestimated Fact

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Zahid Siddique ShadSyed Waqar Hussain

Abstract

Objective The goal of the study was to determine the percentage of hyperchloremia in patients who died in medical intensive care unit (ICU) and thus emphasizing the need of avoiding chloride-rich solutions due to their deleterious effects. Study design We conducted a retrospective study of data from 206 patients who expired in medical ICU in one year from January 2017 to December 2017 in the department of critical care medicine at Shifa International Hospital, Islamabad. Material and methods The study included 206 patients: 93 (43.1%) men and 123 (56.9%) women, over the age of 18 years who expired in medical ICU in one year from January 2017 to December 2017. Patients included for the study were all those who expired with any diagnosis but those who remained admitted in ICU for at least 72 hours and received intravenous fluids. The serum chloride levels of the patients at the time of admission and at 72 hours of stay in ICU were collected. The patients who were having serum chloride levels of 107 milliequivalent per deciliter (meq/dl) or more were labeled as having hyperchloremia. The data were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 23.0 (IBM Crop., Armonk, NY, USA). The mean and standard deviations were calcul...Continue Reading

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