S3 Ep46: NephMadness 2022: Neonatal AKI
The Cribsiders
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How to Calculate Insensibles
A patient comes into the hospital emergency department, they'd been 10 kilos at their last visit and now they're nine kilos. So what I would say is that this patient has a one kilo volume deficit. The nice thing about the metric system is one liter. And so I probably give this patient a couple of boluses to equal one liter, try and get them back to you the lemoch and then try and keep them there. That's a way especially if you're not sure where their kidney function is going to not get yourself in trouble. If you know someone's urine sodium is about 70 to 80, then half normal saline is a great fluid for them because you
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