Matt Federbush, MD
@mfedmd.bsky.social
PulmCrit fellow. Interested in procedures, IP, tech, ultrasound, and hemodynamics.
To give them the benefit of the doubt, perhaps they meant that the NaCl will raise the chloride which will DECREASE the anion gap and therefore incorrectly imply the clearance of ketones (this would only be confusing if one were using anion gap in isolation as the only marker of DKA resolution).
September 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
To give them the benefit of the doubt, perhaps they meant that the NaCl will raise the chloride which will DECREASE the anion gap and therefore incorrectly imply the clearance of ketones (this would only be confusing if one were using anion gap in isolation as the only marker of DKA resolution).