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Having donated all my copies of the Annals 1978 to 2000 to the ACB office as part of an office-clearance/pre-retirement-fit-of-benevolence, I am unable to access :
 
......Julian Barth's method of calculation (Ann Clin Biochem 1996; 33: 55-58) which uses lots of your own lab patient data to plot total calcium vs.albumin over the albumin range 20-55g/L, excluding patients with abnormal urea/creatinine/AST/alk phos/potassium. You end up with a pretty linear graph whose regression line is your adjustment formula.

 

Cited on the mailbase in October 2000

 

Can anyone please oblige with a scanned or .pdf version ?

 

with best wishes

Richard

Richard Mainwaring-Burton

Consultant Biochemist

South London Healthcare Trust

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich

Princess Royal Hospital, Farnborough

Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup

020-8836-5724

mob: 07831-739876

 

From: Clinical biochemistry discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Kay
Sent: 22 November 2012 12:33
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Subject: Re: Ionised calcium in ICU

 

What algorithm do you use to calculate "adjusted calcium"?

 

What method do you use to measure albumin?

 

How well do those two work together?

 

Jonathan

 

 

On 22 Nov 2012, at 12:29, Mohammad Al-Jubouri wrote:



Dear All,

 

We only measure total calcium reported as adjusted calcium on ICU patients and a significant number have low results. An ICU calcium replacement protocol is instigated, however the calcium result remains low. Now ICU wants ionised calcium added to their blood gas machine for monitoring calcium status of their patients.

 

Any words of wisdom on the clinical usefulness of inoised calcium in this setting is welcome.

 

Many thanks

 

Mohammad

 

Dr. M A Al-Jubouri, MB ChB, MSc, FRCP Edin, FRCPath
Consultant Chemical Pathologist

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