IBCC Episode 32 - Metformin Toxicity




The Internet Book of Critical Care Podcast show

Summary: Have you ever seen that patient with a bicarb of 6 and a lactate of 14, and they are just smiling at you and texting their spouse about taxes? In this episode, we explore the direct, indirect, and obscured role that metformin can play in your critical care patients. Come listen for all things diagnosis, classification and some special discussion around GIK, Methylene Blue and when to spin that dialysis machine.