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Picture this scenario.

You get called or page by the lab at 9 p.m.

with a critical lab result of an elevated potassium level.

Darn, those late night outpatient lab calls.

Yeah, so what do you do with that potassium in the outpatient setting?

Yeah, so usually when I get those speeches for hypercalemia, my first instinct is to flip through the chart to see if this has ever

happened before. Kind of hoping that I can just do whatever the last person did to

make the potassium better. Yeah, but either way if you're calling a patient

late at night about their potassium, assuming they even answer the phone, you better know what you're going to do about it.

Right, that's so true. And I can definitely remember one specific time when I got a page about a potassium of 6.2 for a brand new patient with

CKD. When I called she was actually a fan will hall which is a foot market here in Boston

and she was getting ready to have some baked potatoes with her family.

It took a lot of convincing for her to get to the emergency room and to put the potato down.

Exactly.

So let's explore the very practical questions around hyper K lemia.

Welcome to Mind the Gap.

I'm Jeff William, a nephroologist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,

and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

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