Calcium Supplementation in Blood Calcium Levels and Paresthesia Events in Thrombopheresis

Abstract

The use of anticoagulants in the process of thrombopheresis aims to make the blood flow smoothly. In the use of anticoagulants citrate, it is necessary to pay attention to the occurrence of hypocalcaemia. Efforts are needed to minimise the impact of hypocalcaemia both arrhythmias and parasthesias during thrombopheresis by giving calcium tablets. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of oral administration of Calcium tablets on blood calcium levels and the incidence of paresthesia in Thrombopheresis donors.This type of research is true experiment with pre posttest control group design. The treatment group was given calcium tablets before thrombopheresis and the control group was not given calcium tablets before thrombopheresis. All statistical analyses were performed using IBM SPSS for Windows, version 20 (IBM Corp, Armonk, NY, USA). Whereas categorical data were given as numbers and proportions, continuous variables were reported as the median and quartile. The correlation was discovered through binary logistics. It was deemed statistically significant when P < 0.05.Blood calcium levels between the two groups of results Analysis using independent T test showed no significant difference, namely p value 0.67. The incidence of paresthesias between the two groups, both groups that consumed calcium tablets and groups without calcium tablet consumption, from the results of the Chi-Square test showed a significant difference, namely p value 0.003.The conclusion in this study is that there is a significant difference in the average decrease in blood calcium between the group that consumes calcium tablets and the group that does not consume calcium tablets. The incidence of paresthesias There was a significant difference between the groups that consumed calcium tablets and the groups that did not consume calcium.