Acute Care and Critical Care Medicine Flashcards
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Crystaloids vs colloids
Crystalloids:
- less costly
- fewer adverse reactions
Colloids:
- large molecules
- remain in the intervascular space and increase oncotic pressure
- more expensive and do not show clear clinical benefit
Crystalloids examples
5% dextrose (D5W)
0.9% NaCl (normal saline, NS)
Lactated Ringers (LR)
Plasma Lyte
Colloid examples
Albumin 5, 25%
When are dextrose crystalloids used?
When water is needed intracellularly since they contain free water
When are Lactated Ringers and normal saline used?
For volume resuscitation in shock states
when is the colloid albumin used
when there is significant edema (cirrhosis)
Why is the hydroxyethyl startch use limited
boxed warning in critical illness due to mortality
what is the cutoff for hyponaturemia
Na <135
what is the tx for hypovolemic hyponatremia
administer sodium chloride IV
What is the tx for hypervolemic hyponatremia
diuresis with fluid restriction
What is arginine vasopressin receptor (AVP) antagonists (conivaptan or tolvaptan) used to treat
SIADH and hypervolemic hyponaturemia
What is too rapid for sodium correction and what can happen?
12 meq/L over 24 hours to cause osmotic demyelination syndrome (ODS) or central pontine myelinolysis which can cause seizures and death
Samsca
Tolvaptan
What are the arginine vasopressin receptor antagonists
Conivaptan (Vapristol) and Tolvaptan (Samsca)
Why is Tolvaptan limited to greater than 30 days
hepatotoxicity
How should tolvaptan be administered
in a hospital
Side effects of tolvaptan
thirst, nausea, dry mouth, polyuria
monitoring for tolvaptan
rate of na increase
what is the cutoff for hypernaturemia
Na > 145 mEq/L
what are medications that cancause hypokalemia
amphotercin, insulin
What does a drop of 1meq/L represent in body defecit
100-300meQ
What can you NEVER administer potassium via
undiluted of via IV push
What needs to be given to incrtease potassium uptake
magensium
what is the max infusion rate and concentration of potassium
<10meq/100mL infusion rate and concentration of 10meq/100ml