The Synapse (Memorial Hospital MaineHealth)
The Synapse is a Critical Care and Emergency Medicine podcast breaking down topics and case studies into simple easy-to-digest segments to help build paramedic, nurse, and other pre-hospital and hospital clinicians into more robust providers. This podcast is tailored to the staff of the Mount Washington Valley EMS Program and the Memorial Hospital, but is open to any and all Emergency Medicine and Critical Care healthcare providers both in and out-of-hospital. Leave your technician hat outside, put on your clinician hat, and join us!
The Synapse (Memorial Hospital MaineHealth)
The Synapse Season 2 Episode 15 - The End of Calcium (and Bicarb) in Hyperkalemia???
First of all...no. Not quite. But I got your attention, didn't I? Recently a *Retrospective case study with meta-analysis* was released that basically purports that there is no place or evidence for Calcium Chloride/Gluconate in Hyperkalemia without ECG changes, no place or evidence for Calcium Chloride/Gluconate in Hyperkalemia WITH ECG changes, and really no place for sodium bicarb either. Let's read between the lines and see why we should not quite pump the brakes on Calcium just yet.
