Title :

Hospital-acquired hyperkalemia events in older patients are mostly due to avoidable, multifactorial, adverse drug reactions.

Author(s) :

Robert, Laurine [Auteur]
Ficheur, Gregoire [Auteur]
Decaudin, Bertrand [Auteur]
Groupe de Recherche sur les formes Injectables et les Technologies Associées - ULR 7365 [GRITA]
Gellens, Juliette [Auteur]
Luyckx, Michel [Auteur]
Groupe de Recherche sur les formes Injectables et les Technologies Associées - ULR 7365 [GRITA]
Perichon, Renaud [Auteur]
Gautier, Sophie [Auteur]
Troubles cognitifs dégénératifs et vasculaires - U 1171 - EA 1046 [TCDV]
Puisieux, Francois [Auteur]
Evaluation des technologies de santé et des pratiques médicales - ULR 2694 [METRICS]
Chazard, Emmanuel [Auteur]
Evaluation des technologies de santé et des pratiques médicales - ULR 2694 [METRICS]
BEUSCART, Jean-Baptiste [Auteur]
Evaluation des technologies de santé et des pratiques médicales - ULR 2694 [METRICS]

Journal title :

Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics

Abbreviated title :

Clin. Pharmacol. Ther.

Publication date :

2018

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

English abstract : [en]

Drug-induced hyperkalemia is a frequent and severe complication in the hospital setting. Other risk factors may also induce hyperkalemia but the combination of drugs and precipitating factors has not been extensively ...
Show more >Drug-induced hyperkalemia is a frequent and severe complication in the hospital setting. Other risk factors may also induce hyperkalemia but the combination of drugs and precipitating factors has not been extensively studied. The aim was to identify drug-induced hyperkalemia events in hospitalized older patients and to describe their combinations with precipitating factors. Two experts independently analyzed retrospective data of patients aged 75 years or more. Experts identified 471 hyperkalemia events and concluded that 379 (80.5%) were induced by drugs. The cause was multifactorial (i.e., at least one drug with a precipitating factor) in 300 (79.2%) of the 379 drug-induced hyperkalemia. Most of the drug-induced hyperkalemia events were avoidable (79.9%)-mainly because of the multifactorial cause (e.g., dosage adaptation during acute kidney injury). Drug-induced hyperkalemia events are frequently combined with precipitating factors in hospitalized older patients and their prevention should focus on these combinations.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Administrative institution(s) :

Université de Lille
CHU Lille

Collections :

• Groupe de Recherche sur les formes Injectables et les Technologies Associées (GRITA) - ULR 7365
• METRICS : Evaluation des technologies de santé et des pratiques médicales - ULR 2694

Research team(s) :

Innovation/évaluation des médicaments injectables
Innovation/évaluation des dispositifs médicaux de perfusion

Submission date :

2019-02-26T17:06:50Z