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 26 - Hypokalemia and Hypomagnesemia...When the K+ is Stubborn
If you have ever participated in potassium repletion before, you are probably aware that for every 10mEq of K+ we administer, we should expect the serum K+ lab value to increase by 0.1mEq/L. Well, what happens when we give K+, and lots of it, but the serum potassium doesn't budge? Might I recommend remembering it's partner-in-crime, the magnesium? In this episode, we will look at their relationship and talk about some strategies that might help.
