{"id":216,"date":"2011-11-22T09:38:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T14:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=216"},"modified":"2011-11-22T09:39:25","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T14:39:25","slug":"actual-or-the-corrected-serum-sodium-in-dka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"Actual or the corrected serum sodium in DKA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The anion gap is representative of positive versus negative charges. when we are calculating anion gap, we are calculating a balance between positive and negative charges. correcting<!--more--> sodium for anion gap will mislead our calculation in terms of correct estimation of positive charges. Corrected sodium is a very useful tool to determine status of hydration in DKA. If Patients&#8217; sodium is normal or high and glucose is elevated, this represents sever hydration. if sodium is low\u00a0 after correction, it could represent too much hydration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccjm.org\/content\/68\/8\/673.full.pdf\">Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccjm.org\/content\/68\/8\/673.full.pdf\">Should the actual or the corrected serum sodium be used to calculate the anion gap in diabetic ketoacidosis?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The anion gap is representative of positive versus negative charges. when we are calculating anion gap, we are calculating a balance between positive and negative charges. correcting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diabetes","category-pgy1","category-pgy2","category-pgy3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}