Prospective Observational study to determine the causes of hypokalemia and in medical wards and its association with other comorbidities and death

OBJECTIVES : 1. Calculate proportion of patients with hypokalemia and its causes in adult medical wards. 2. Dose and duration of potassium required for correction. 3. Correlation of Hypokalemia and mortality. 4. Association of hypokalemia with other comorbidities. 5. Association of ECG changes with severity of hypokalemia. METHODS : Total of 201 patients were recruited after taking a written informed consent. Every tenth consecutive patient was a control (patients with serum potassium more than or equal to 3.5 meq/l). Cases were all patients who had serum potassium