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Thursday, September 28, 2017

A couple of days ago, this came across my notifications

Prolonged OTC ingestion of sodium bicarbonate causing extremely low K+ (<1.5)
Any ideas as to the mechanism? @kidney_boy #askrenal
— Morgan (@Morgansb) September 27, 2017

The answer came quick.

How does bicarbonate cause hypokalemia

The video is here (complete with misspellings) and the Keynote file is here (with misspellings corrected)

How metabolic alkalosis causes hypokalemia from joel topf on Vimeo.

Joel Topf, MD FACP

I am a board certified clinical nephrologist in Detroit. I am a partner at St Clair Nephrology. I am an Assistant Clinical Professor at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine and part of the faculty for The St John Hospital and Medical Center Nephrology Fellowship. I have an offices at St Johns Moross, Roseville and Farmington Hills. I am the medical director of St Clair Nephrology Research.

The best way to contact me is by twitter @Kidney_boy, (check out my best tweets at Favstar) or Facebook.

COI: I am on the speakers bureau for Astute Medical. I have an ownership stake in four Davita run dialysis clinics and one vascular access center. Astellas paid for my trip to Australia (Feb '15) for me to speak at one meeting and three hospitals. Takeda Oncology made a donation to MM4MM the program that is taking me to Mount Everest in 2018.

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Thursday, September 28, 2017

Have a nephrology question? #AskRenal to the rescue.