Hyperkalemia And Acute Kidney Injury Flashcards
What is Dilutional Hyponatremia?
A condition characterized by renal dysfunction with increased intake of hypotonic fluids, excessive sweating, and impaired renal excretion of water.
List some causes of Dilutional Hyponatremia.
- Syndrome of Inappropriate ADH (SIADH)
- Oliguric renal failure
- Severe congestive heart failure
- Cirrhosis
What is Hyperkalaemia?
A condition where serum potassium (K+) levels exceed 5.5 mEq/L.
What are the early clinical manifestations of Hyperkalemia?
- Hyperactive muscles
- Paraesthesia
What are the late clinical manifestations of Hyperkalemia?
- Muscle weakness
- Flaccid paralysis
- Change in ECG pattern
- Dysrhythmias
- Bradycardia
- Cardiac arrest
What is the initial treatment for Hyperkalemia?
- Find cause & treat
- Calcium gluconate IV
- Soluble insulin with 50% glucose IV
- Ion exchange resin
- Bicarbonate IV
What is the long-term treatment for Hyperkalemia?
Dialysis.
What are the clinical manifestations of Hypokalaemia?
- Weakness
- Flaccid paralysis
- Respiratory arrest
- Constipation
- Dysrhythmias
- Postural hypotension
- Cardiac arrest
What is the treatment for Hypokalaemia?
Increase K+ intake, preferably by foods, but slowly.
What is the etiology of Hyperkalemia?
- Renal disease
- Massive cellular trauma
- Insulin deficiency
- Addison’s disease
- Potassium-sparing diuretics
- Decreased blood pH
True or False: Peritoneal dialysis is as effective as hemodialysis for treating Hyperkalemia.
False.
What are some causes of Hypernatremia?
- Hypertonic IV solution
- Oversecretion of aldosterone
- Loss of pure water
- Long-term sweating with chronic fever
- Respiratory infection
- Diabetes
- Insufficient intake of water
What is the treatment for Hyponatremia?
- Water restriction
- Sodium chloride administration
- Hypertonic saline for severe cases
- Vaptan
- Treat underlying aetiology
What are the clinical manifestations of Hyponatremia?
- Neurological symptoms: lethargy, headache, confusion, seizures
- Muscle symptoms: cramps, weakness
- Gastrointestinal symptoms: nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps
What is the treatment for Hypernatremia?
- Desmopressin for DI
- Volume status assessment
- Salt restriction
- Loop diuretics with water
What are the aetiologies of calcium imbalance?
- Hypocalcemia: post thyroid surgery, renal failure, hyperphosphatemia
- Hypercalcemia: renal dysfunction, malignant disease, nutritional disorders
What are the clinical features of Hypocalcaemia?
- Tetany
- Depression
- Perioral paraesthesiae
- Carpopedal spasm
- Neuromuscular excitability
What is the treatment for Hypercalcemia?
- Treat the etiology
- Saline diuresis with furosemide
- Inhibit bone resorption
- Hemodialysis
What is the normal serum level of potassium?
3.5-5.0 mmol/L.
What is the primary intracellular ion?
Potassium.
Fill in the blank: An electrolyte is a substance whose components dissociate in solution into positively charged _______ and negatively charged _______.
[cations], [anions]
What regulates sodium balance in the body?
ADH.
What is the RDA for sodium?
2400 mg (1-2 mEq/kg/day).
What is the RDA for potassium?
4700 mg (0.6-0.8 mEq/kg/day).
What is the significance of serum osmolality?
It helps assess the concentration of solutes in the serum.
Reference interval for hyperkalemia
3.5-5.0mmol/l
The most important intracellular cation Is?
Potassium
Which of the concentration of potassium (extracellular or intracellular ) is of clinical significance
Extracellular concentration
When does potassium arrest the heart
Diastole
When does calcium cause cardiac arrrest
In systole