
18. A Case of Severe Weakness in the ICU
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What Is Renal Wastin Potassium?
There is a rare noro muscular disorder characterized by attacks of low potassium that cause proximal muscle weakness and sometimes even respiratory weakness. The next big thing to figure out is whether our patient had significant potassium wasting, since patients with this need lots of kay. So then think him back to jeff's framework. Are patient had no diarrhea to cause any g i losses and no clear cause of a absorption. And so that's on the list of things that we're going to be looking for absolutely im one thing when i was taking care of this patient that i was reading about during the case were something called hypo calemic periodic paralysis.
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