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#308 Metabolic Alkalosis and Hypokalemia: Kidney Boy Returns!

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Hypocalcalosis

The target here is not a certain potassium. What we're trying to do here is correct the metabal calcalosis. We have loss of chloride, we can give chloride. And we have an excess aldostron, and we can block that. So you want to give as much potential chloride as possible. Start at ten daily, move up to 20 daily. Go up to 40 twice a day. If you're getting to 80 mill colents of potassium chloride a day, that's the kind of equivalent of chloride as you'd find in a 500 c c bowl.

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