Retrospective Analyses of 200 Patients Over 65 Years Receiving Albumin Treatment in Intensive Care Unit

Banu CEVIK¹ and Yucel YUCE^1,

¹University of Health Sciences Kartal Dr. Lutfi Kirdar Education and Research Hospital, Anaesthesiology and Reanimation Department, Kartal, Istanbul, Turkey

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Banu CEVIK and Yucel YUCE. Retrospective Analyses of 200 Patients Over 65 Years Receiving Albumin Treatment in Intensive Care Unit. American Journal of Clinical Medicine Research. 2018; 6(1):1-4. doi: 10.12691/AJCMR-6-1-1

Abstract

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of albumin infusion in critically ill geriatric patients and discuss the prognostic impact on mortality. This study is a retrospective analysis of patients with hypoalbuminemia (≤2.5 g/dl) over 65 years and older followed-up in a 38-bed-mixed medical-surgical tertiary intensive care unit (ICU) of a 650-bed-academic hospital affiliated to University of Health Sciences in İstanbul during 1-year-period. We collected the data including sex, cause of admission, length of stay, duration of mechanical ventilation and APACHE II scores from patients’ medical records. The amount of albumin infused per patient and laboratory evaluation concerning albumin levels was processed by hospital electronic database. Overall 200 patients were included study. Among the patients, 90 (45%) were female, and 110 (53.5%) were male with overall mean age of 78.62±7.63 years. The cause of admission was due to non-surgical reasons in 119(59.5%) patients. Mean length of stay and mechanical ventilation time was significantly higher in non-survivors. The amount of albumin used per patient was similar in both study groups (p=0.276). Pretreatment level of serum album was 2.15±0.28 g/dl and 2.10±0.31 g/dl in both groups respectively (p=0.364) having no significant increase after treatment (p=0.352). In the non-survivors group, APACHE II score was significantly high. Long-term mortality ratio was significantly high which indicated that albumin had no beneficial effect on long-term mortality. The albumin transfusion in critically ill patients over 65 years old has no considerable effect on the treatment of hypoalbuminemia and ICU mortality.

Keywords

albumin, APACHE II, mortality

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