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 16 - Sodium Bicarb, Revisited.
Ok, because we touched on Sodium Bicarb in the last episode, I felt it made sense to not only re-visit this topic, but to also look at ways to reduce the negative effects of the hypertonicity with dilution in D5W, when to consider diluting and when to just full-send the 8.4% IV bolus, and a few other situations to consider administration of IV sodium bicarb that have nothing to do with cardiac arrest or acidosis.
