Welcome, this is Devine. Welcome to episode 491 of the Devine Intervention Podcast.

In today's podcast, we're going to be discussing the US

US Assembly Step 2, CK, Step 3, Rapid Review.

This is going to be Series 106.

Series 106.

Let's get right to it.

So what if they give you a question about a 19 year old female and you're

told that she's being treated for Hodgkin's lymphoma. Then you're giving a bunch of labs. You know you're

told that she has not been feeling well for the last 24 hours and giving a

bunch of labs you notice the potassium is six which is high you

notice that a phosphate is extremely high you notice a creatin is like 3.5 or

something crazy like that?

If you see something like this, what should you be thinking about?

I really hope you're saying, oh divine, this sounds an awful lot like

tumorlysis syndrome. This sounds an awful lot like like tumorlysis syndrome.

This sounds an awful lot like

tumorlysis syndrome.

So how do people get this problem?

How do we get these labs?

Well, the thing is usually we're going to see this in the context in a classic

context of a person having a malignancy, usually some kind of hematologic malignancy because those things are usually pretty sensitive to the therapies that we give.

Not all of them but many of them and as those cells die stuff is going to spill out into the circulation, right?

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