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BTK ABSITE 2023 - Fluids and Electrolytes

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

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How to Calculate Your Sodium Deficit

There's two drugs you can use. One is demeclocycline, which is an old antibiotic, but it also treats SIADH. And then you mentioned the vaptans. Those are the newer drugs for hyponatremia. What do those do? I assume they have some type of a diuretic effect or with the... So they're vasopressin antagonist. They antagonize vasopressed receptors in the kidney. Do you know which type of vasoppressin receptors those are? V1. V2. You want your desired sodium minus your actual sodium. Multiply that by total body water, which should be again for a 70

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