
Episode 26 - Hyperkalemia
The Curious Clinicians
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Calcium Wokanate Stabilizes Cardiac Memory
There are two ways to get you back to that 20 millivolts gap that stabilizes the membrane. So I think the answer is the second one. And so some of the evidence for this came out way back in 1955. Silvio, weed man or wide man in his group showed that more depolarization was required with calcium rich solutions. Calcium was somehow moving that threshold a little bit less negative moving it away from that resting potential.
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