Texas Tech Medcast Reynolds Geriatric Step 2 CK Test Prep Series 09-10: No. 42--Harry the Hyperkalemic
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine
The Step2CK Test Prep Series was created by fourth-year students at the Texas Tech School of Medicine in Lubbock as a project of the fourth-year geriatrics rotation. It was developed as part of the Reynolds Geriatrics Podcast series, which is supported in part by an Aging and Quality of Life grant from the D.W. Reynolds Foundation.
This espisode is based on Question 42 of the 2009 Step2CK Sample Exam.
Learning Objectives: the third-year medical student studying for the Step2CK exam should be able to:
- List the common diuretic medication that can cause hyperkalemia
- Identify the importance of adverse drug effects on the geriatric population
- Describe the risk of polypharmacy in elderly adults
The episodes in this series are based on questions that have geriatrics content and patient vignettes from the 2009 Step2CK Sample Exam, available from http://www.ttuhsc.edu/som/fammed/ttmedcast/gerseri.... For more information on the series, go to http://www.ttuhsc.edu/som/fammed/ttmedcast/gerseri....