Abstract

Albumin is used as the best predictor of healing patients and is one of the important parameters in measuring nutritional status in patients with acute or chronic diseases Giving food therapy a source of protein albumin serves to increase albumin in the blood to be good so that the patient becomes healthy faster so that the period of care or length of stay in the hospital becomes shorter This research aimed at observing the effect of giving cork fish extracts to the patient s hypoalbuminemia at General Hospital of Dr Zainoel Abidin RSU-ZA Banda Aceh This research is an experimental pre-test posttest one group design Initial examination is examining the albumin levels in patients with hypoalbuminemia then given 100 ml cork fish extract Therapy for administration was conducted for 7 days then re-examined the levels of albumin The sample was taken by purposive sampling