Clinical Acid-Base and Electrolyte Disorders: Volume Two — Electrolytes Fluid Balance: A Comprehensive Textbook of Sodium, Potassium, Calcium, ... Tonicity Management: 2

Sodium disorders are disorders of water, and almost every error in managing them begins by forgetting that. BODY Volume Two covers the electrolytes and the fluids that govern them. It opens with sodium and water - the homeostatic machinery, a fixed approach to a low sodium, the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuresis, the varieties of hyponatremia that are not hypotonic at all, and the correction limits that make treatment more dangerous than the abnormality. Potassium follows, measured in a compartment holding two per cent of the total; then calcium, with the measurement problem that obscures it; then magnesium and phosphate, the two ions most often left off the request form and most often responsible when something else will not correct. The volume closes with fluid balance, osmolality, and tonicity, treating intravenous fluid as what it is: a drug with a composition, a dose, and a predictable set of adverse effects. Twenty-nine chapters with worked cases, review questions and rationales, 28 vector figures, 71 tables, appendices of reference intervals and equations, a glossary, and a page-referenced index. Chapter, figure, and table numbering continues from Volume One, and the volume is complete in itself. INTENDED READERSHIP Nephrology and critical care trainees, internal medicine and emergency physicians, hospitalists, pharmacists, advanced practice providers, and medical students preparing for clinical examinations.