USMLE Step 2 Secrets

Chapter 21: Laboratory Medicine

USMLE Step 2 Secrets

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Content covered in this episode includes: [0:35]: Question Dissection: A 17 year old boy is seen in the E.D. with a complaint of muscle weakness.. [6:10] Laboratory medicine chapter of S2S including questions like: - What may cause a false lab report of hyperkalemia? - What effect do serum acidosis and serum alkalosis have on potassium and calcium levels? - What does an elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate mean in pregnancy?

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