Links To And Excerpts From The Internet Book Of Critical Care (IBCC) Chapter On Hypokalemia

In this post, I link to and excerpt from Dr. Josh Farkas‘ chapter on Hypokalemia from The Internet Book Of Critical Care (IBCC) [Link is to the IBCC Table Of Contents], June 25, 2021.

All that follows is from the above chapter:

CONTENTS

• Rapid Reference 
• Physiology:  Potassium pharmacokinetics
• Diagnosis
• Clinical significance
• Causes
• Workup
• Risk stratification
• Treatment
  • Target potassium level?
  • Enteral route generally preferred
  • Intravenous potassium
  • Magnesium repletion
  • Other measures
• Podcast
• Questions & discussion
• Pitfalls