The Diagnosis of Diarrhoea

A potassium level can be potentially hetful here. If the patient has te multi factorial electrolitic disarray, t may not work, but it's worth taking a look at. Make sure you get that serum lights and osmolarity to compare to,. Yes. The acidemic ther kidnes should be secreting acid. And the way the kidneys really secrete that, predominantly, is ammonium. So we need to measure the ammonium level uri directly. But traditionally, this has oftentimes been done with the ur ani gap. Based on my reading, the cooler, better way to do this seems to be the urin os the molar gap