
#109 Hyponatremia Management Part 1: 5 Pearls Segment
Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast
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Hyponetrima - Is Excretion of Water a Good Thing?
The urine osmoality has a range, right? It's like, ranges from 50 to 12 hundred in the the human kidney. So i guess if we need some solute to pe out free water, then are salt tabs just acting as a solute. That's why the hyponi treme improves. It's not because we're introducing more salt. It's because we're introduce solute in that solute helps the excretion of water,. and the excrete of water results in an improvement in hyponetrima. Oh man. The answer to doctor williams's rhetorical question, there is, unfortunately, not a whole heck of a lot. But but in
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