#88 Acid base, boy bands, and grandfather clocks with Joel Topf MD
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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Isopropyl Alcohol and Dialysis
Isopropyl alcohol will cause intoxication patient will be intoxicated. They will get a large osmolar gap which we'll talk about shortly. If there's a big difference between a calculated osmolality and the measured osmolability that's presumptive evidence for these low molecular weight toxins Again, it's not great. There's a lot of false positives But the key here is you need to be able to calculate the osmol chemistry.
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