Volume : IV, Issue : IV, April - 2014

Role of Calcium in Critically Ill Children–Incidence of Hypocalcemia in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Set Up

Dr. Neha Naik, Dr. Vithalrao Dandge

Abstract :

 We have studied ionized serum calcium in a prospective cohort of 320 children (186 boys, 134 girls), admitted consecutively to a PICU of N.K.P.SALVE Institute and medical science Nagpur. and correlated it with the outcome.

Venous blood was obtained for serum ionic calcium, at the time of admission . Hypocalcemia was present in 47.5  per cent of patients at admission and during hospital stay. which  seems  to  be  within  range  mentioned  in  the literature.  Our  cut  off  value  of  hypocalcemia  was  1.12  mmol/l.  It  was  found that  hypocalcemia  was  more  common  in  critically  ill  children  with  114 (56.72%)  cases  as  compared  to  non–critically  ill  children  with  38  (31.9%) cases. Age and gender of  the  patient did  not  reveal  any relationship  with ionized calcium. Mortality was significantly higher in hypocalcaemic (17) compared with normocalcaemic (3) patients. We conclude that hypocalcemia is common in critically ill children admitted to a PICU and is associated with higher mortality

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Dr.Neha Naik, Dr.Vithalrao Dandge Role of Calcium in Critically Ill Children - Incidence of Hypocalcemia in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Set Up Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.IV, Issue. IV

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