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IBCC Episode 72 - Dominating the Diuresis

The Internet Book of Critical Care Podcast

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Is Furosomide Better Than Lasic?

Furosomide is going to cause some mino sodium excretion for short, but it's also going to cause a lot of electrolite free water loss. Spironal actone works differently. It inhibits aldostron effects in the kidney and that causes it to have like, a number of unique properties. Spernelacton seems to be somewhat uniquely useful in serosis so that's definitely a place where you could probably use it with best evidence basis. And then probably the last situation, which we're going to focus on the most here, is as an adjunctive diretic, when we're really trying to remove a lot of fluid from the patient

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