
Episode 265: Schema Episode – Hypokalemia & Hypophosphatemia
The Clinical Problem Solvers
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What Causes Increased pH Shifts in the Kidneys?
When someone has high potassium, what do we do to treat it? So we give insulin. And I like to think of it as capital I and so in so in because it shifts things in. The other thing that can cause potassium to shift into the cells are channelopathies. If you have barium toxicity, it affects the potassium inward rectifier current. But you can also get hypochlemia through that. It doesn't always present with a normal pH.
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