
#88 Acid base, boy bands, and grandfather clocks with Joel Topf MD
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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How to Calculate Compensation for Metabolic Acidosis
There are lots of Programs that you can get for your smartphone that will interpret the ABG for you The ones that I've used have all been accurate. It's pretty mechanical to do Um, but you can't use them during boards and honestly Uh, when you're taking care of patients taking out the phone Unlocking the phone finding the app in putting all the data or going to the web and searching for it takes forever like it's worth it if you do these enough Just to memorize it For ABGs because there are four primary disorders and you need to learn four different equations to understand them They're not hard equations, but you just need to sit down and memorize them.
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