NCLEX-RN Complete Prep Course — Lesson 73: Electrolyte Replacement, Emergency Drugs, and High-Risk Infusions: Potassium, Magnesium, Calcium, Insulin Drips, and Vasopressors

Sarah Mitchell teaches the drugs where a technique error kills. She covers potassium chloride rules (never IV push, 10 milliequivalents per hour peripherally, urine output first), magnesium sulfate monitoring with calcium gluconate as the antidote, calcium chloride versus gluconate, hypertonic saline and osmotic demyelination, the DKA insulin drip sequence, code cart doses for epinephrine, atropine, amiodarone, adenosine, and pressors, the full antidote list, and independent double checks, with a potassium-and-oliguria scenario and a magnesium toxicity scenario.

Lesson 73 of 125 in the NCLEX-RN Complete Prep Course audio course from ExamPrepRise.

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