Almost every emergency patient needs a decision about fluids, and electrolyte and acid–base disorders sit behind arrhythmias, seizures, weakness and coma. These lessons cover how to choose and prescribe IV fluids, correct sodium safely, treat dangerous hyperkalaemia and hypokalaemia, manage calcium, magnesium and phosphate, and read an arterial blood gas step by step.

1. Watch the lesson videoA lecture or case discussion from the AETCM YouTube channel opens each lesson.
2. Unlock the notesThe notes open once you have watched 90 % of the video.
3. Read and reviseKey points, tables, drug doses, red flags and pearls, plus more videos on the topic.
4. Move onYour progress is saved on this device, so you can come back any time.

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For MBBS students, interns, residents and doctors working in emergency and acute care.