Abstract
INTRODUCTION
Hematology inpatient unit patients could be treated with various types of chemotherapeutics, antibiotics, and other drugs. Hematology inpatient unit patients should be also sometimes intravenously hydrated for the reasons such as tumor lysis syndrome prevention and chemotherapeutic toxicity prevention. Hereby, we aimed to search about the frequency of potassium and creatinine level disorders in an hematology inpatient unit.
METHODS
All the data included 49 patients who were followed in the Dr. Abdurrahman Yurtaslan Ankara Oncology Training and Research Hospital Hematology Inpatient Unit at anytime between 01/01/2017(Month/day/year) and 01/15/2017(the dates 01/01/2017 and 01/15/2017 included). The potassium levels, creatinine levels and disease types of the patients were recorded retrospectively from the electronical patient file system.
RESULTS
Of the 49 patients, 22(≈45%) had experienced hypokalemia during their follow-up in the inpatient unit. 4 (≈8%) of the all patients had experienced hypokalemia below the level of 3 mmol/l (< 3 mmol/l) during the follow-up in the inpatient unit. 9 (≈18 %) of the all patients had experienced creatinine level over 1,2 mg/dL (> 1,2 mg/dL).
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION
Hypokalemia may not be rare in hematology inpatient unit. So that, patients should also be checked for the potassium levels and renal function tests during the follow-up in the inpatient unit.