Comments on: A normal gap acidosis dissected http://www.medrants.com/archives/4945 Internal medicine, American health care, and especially medical education Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:15:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Happy Hospitalist http://www.medrants.com/archives/4945/comment-page-1#comment-529528 Happy Hospitalist Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:59:03 +0000 http://www.medrants.com/?p=4945#comment-529528 Here's what I would have done in private practice. 1) calculate the anion gap to be normal. 2) Give 100 meq Na HCO3 3) Recheck BMP the following day 4) Place him on bid to tid oral bicarb 5) Follow up in a month with BMP Here’s what I would have done in private practice.

1) calculate the anion gap to be normal.
2) Give 100 meq Na HCO3
3) Recheck BMP the following day
4) Place him on bid to tid oral bicarb
5) Follow up in a month with BMP

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