Potassium levels can be low as a result of a disease or from taking certain medicines, or after a prolonged illness with diarrhea or vomiting. Potassium gluconate is used to prevent or to treat low blood levels of potassium (hypokalemia). Beta-adrenergic agents, insulin, and loop diuretics stimulate cellular uptake of potassium, lowering the serum potassium level. Medication Summary Calcium protects the myocardium from the deleterious effects of hyperkalemia. How does calcium gluconate lower potassium? Calcium chloride injection is also used in cardiac resuscitation, arrhythmias, hypermagnesemia, calcium channel blocker overdose, and beta-blocker overdose. What is calcium chloride an antidote for?Ĭalcium Chloride is a mineral indicated in the immediate treatment of hypocalcemic tetany (abnormally low levels of calcium in the body that cause muscle spasm). What Is Calcium Gluconate and How Does It Work? Calcium gluconate is the calcium salt of gluconic acid, an intravenous medication used to treat conditions arising from calcium deficiencies such as hypocalcemic tetany, hypocalcemia related to hypoparathyrodism, and hypocalcemia due to rapid growth or pregnancy. Additionally, high-dose insulin has been established as an effective therapy for calcium channel blocker overdose with cardiogenic shock. Therefore, despite the notion that calcium and glucagon are “antidotes,” vasopressor therapy with norepinephrine is required in most cases with hypotension. The aim of the present study was to analyze the beneficial effects of four possible local antidotes for calcium gluconate extravasation: hyaluronidase, sodium thiosulfate, triamcinolone acetonide, and physiologic saline solution.
3 What is the action of calcium gluconate?.1 Does calcium gluconate have an antidote?.
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