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Old 08-25-2006, 11:21 PM
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Originally Posted by IMG SURVIVOR View Post
You forgot to give B1 before glucose,

Now I get a little confuse with wernickel syndrome
wernickel kostokof syndrome



Mechanism I live that to you guys I dont want to be the only one having fun answering
Wernicke syndrome--ataxia, nystagmus, and confusion whereas Korsakoff's is memory deficits...;

Mechanism--the little thiamine that this person had got used up when the glucose went to pyruvate to acetyl CoA... needed to give IV thiamine before the IV fluids...
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