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What is the term used to describe low potassium levels in the body?
What is hypokalemia.
100
What common fruit is high in potassium?
What is bananas or avocados.
100
What is the symbol for potassium?
What is K.
100
What pharmacological category is potassium in?
What is an electrolyte supplement.
100
What common form is potassium found in?
What is KCl.
200
What dosages forms is potassium available in (Name 2)?
What is tablets, capsules, and in solution.
200
What common vegetables is potassium found in?
What is spinach or potatoes.
200
Is potassium a mineral or a vitamin?
What is a mineral.
200
What is the major pathway that potassium is excreted in the body?
What is through urine.
200
What is potassium’s property in water?
What is water soluble.
300
What are the symptoms of potassium deficiency (Name 2)?
What is vomiting, diarrhea, drainage of GI fluids, hyperadrenalism, malnutrition, debilitation, prolonged negative nitrogen balance, prolonged parenteral alimentation without addition of potassium, dialysis, metabolic alkalosis, metabolic or diabetic acidosis, GI tract abnormalities which result in poor absorption, certain renal diseases, and familial periodic paralysis.
300
What is the recommended dose for potassium?
What is 4700 mg/day or 4.7 g/day.
300
What is the atomic number?
What is 19.
300
Potassium can be used to treat what toxicity?
What is thallium toxicity.
300
Potassium treats or prevents the incidence of heart disease (True or False)?
What is false.
400
Low potassium is commonly associated with what an increase risk in what comorbidities (Name 2)?
What is high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, arthritis, cancer, digestive disorders, and infertility.
400
What is a contraindication to the administration of potassium?
What is severe renal impairment or renal insufficiency.
400
What is the charge of potassium?
What is positive.
400
What is the mechanism of action of potassium
What is potassium is a major cation of intracellular fluid, helping with conducting nerve impulses.
400
Potassium is used to treat what disease (Name 1)?
What is potassium deficiency, high blood pressure, or arrhythmias.
500
Is dose adjustment necessary in hepatic or renal impairment?
What is no dosage adjustment has been indicated.
500
Potassium is important because it helps maintain what?
What is fluid and electrolyte balance.
500
What latin root word is the symbol of potassium derived from?
What is the latin work of kalium.
500
What drug should be cautioned when taking potassium and why (Name 1)?
Heparin or K-sparing diuretics because they can both cause hyperkalemia.
500
Who discovered potassium?
Who is Sir Humphry Davy.
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