
#88 Acid base, boy bands, and grandfather clocks with Joel Topf MD
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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How to Teach Acid Base
acid base is kind of like there's a There's only a few subjects in medicine that are like this And it's not so much like a knowledge thing like you just need to. It's also I think very similar to the skill of um the physical exam Right, the physical exam is something that's taught and that The important part about learning thephysical exam is not to ask so many questions about how useful it actually is for diagnosing lactic acidosis. A change of 0.3 on the pH scale will is a factor of two in hydrogen ion concentration for going for 7.4 Which is 40 nanomoles per liter to 7.1 which is 80 go to 6.8
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