Killu and sarani 2016 fundamental critical care support p.
Marble anion gap.
A retrospective study of 6868 sets of serum electrolytes among hospitalized patients 3 for example revealed incidences of increased and reduced anion gap to be 37 6 and 2 9 respectively.
But when you ve got yourself a metabolic acidosis this is a good place to start.
An increased anion gap 16 is observed in many inborn errors of metabolism and in most other conditions producing metabolic acidosis in the neonate.
Thus the finding of a normal anion gap per se may not exclude the presence of diabetic ketoacidosis.
In contrast the differential diagnosis of metabolic acidosis with a normal anion gap is essentially limited to two conditions diarrhea and renal tubular acidosis.
I know there are a couple of calculations and wanted to know is one calculation better than the other.
I was just tasked with adding anion gap to our panels.
Na cl hc03 anion gap or na k cl hco3 anion gap.
Abnormal anion gap is a relatively common occurrence among hospitalized patients with increased anion gap being far more common than reduced anion gap.
Ever wondered what on earth the anion gap was all about.
Moreover as confirmed in this pa tient diabetic ketoacidosis may present with pure hy perchloremic acidosis.