↓ Skip to main content

Establishing reference intervals for electrolytes in newborns and infants using direct ISE analyzer

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Research Notes, May 2013
Altmetric Badge

Mentioned by

twitter
1 X user

Citations

dimensions_citation
3 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
10 Mendeley
You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output. Click here to find out more.
Title
Establishing reference intervals for electrolytes in newborns and infants using direct ISE analyzer
Published in
BMC Research Notes, May 2013
DOI 10.1186/1756-0500-6-199
Pubmed ID
Authors

Mulugeta Melkie, Mahilet Yigeremu, Paulos Nigussie, Tilahun Teka, Samuel Kinde

Abstract

BACKGROUND: To generate clinically applicable reference intervals (RIs) for commonly requested electrolytes in Ethiopian newborns and infants that can help in early detection, close monitoring and correction of electrolyte abnormalities. Cord blood (from newborns, n = 60) and venous blood samples (from infants, n = 57) were collected and analyzed using direct ISE analyzer, AVL (9181). MedCalc(R) software was applied to determine the robust upper and lower end points covering 95% of the reference values of each electrolyte with respective 90% CIs. FINDINGS: This is an extension report of our recent study; and hence is resulted from the same data source. The level of Na+ and K+ showed difference in newborns and infants even though combined RIs were suggested by the Haris and Boyd rule as 126--143 mmol/l and RI = 4.0-7.9 mmol/l respectively. However, Cl- values failed to show such a difference and thus a combined RI was determined to be 100--111 mmol/l. Almost all maternal, neonatal and infantile factors were not able to affect the values of the electrolytes. CONCLUSION: Combined RIs are suggested for the interpretation of electrolyte values in newborns and infants without taking the effect of maternal, neonatal and infantile factors into account. Since the RIs were different from previously reported values, it will be appropriate to apply such RIs for the interpretation of electrolyte values in Ethiopian pediatric population.

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profile of 1 X user who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 10 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 10 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 2 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 20%
Researcher 2 20%
Student > Master 1 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 10%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 2 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 4 40%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 20%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 10%
Unknown 3 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 May 2013.
All research outputs
#15,272,611
of 22,711,242 outputs
Outputs from BMC Research Notes
#2,312
of 4,256 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#120,857
of 195,768 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Research Notes
#38
of 60 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,711,242 research outputs across all sources so far. This one is in the 22nd percentile – i.e., 22% of other outputs scored the same or lower than it.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,256 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.5. This one is in the 33rd percentile – i.e., 33% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 195,768 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one is in the 28th percentile – i.e., 28% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.
We're also able to compare this research output to 60 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 26th percentile – i.e., 26% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.