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 27 - Fluid Choice in Hyperkalemic Resuscitation
Is NS better? What about LR? Plasmalyte? What does "better" actually mean? Should we instead focus on which one(s) might do more harm in the hyperkalemic patient? Can you take a guess? I will give you a hint...don't focus on the potassium concentration in the fluid...
Join me to find out the answers!
