Frank Brodkey

I am a Pulmonary/Critical Care/Palliative Medicine physician at the University of Wisconsin. My special interests are in Palliative Intensive Care, electronic ICU and General Critical Care Medicine.

Articles

Tales of the Anion Gap, Part IV

Frank Brodkey

November 3rd 2014

The authors reviews several challenging cases illustrating the utility of the anion gap in the evaluation of an acidotic patient.

Tales of the Anion Gap, Part III: Case Examples

Frank Brodkey

October 21st 2014

Calculation and interpretation of the anion gap is extremely useful in the evaluation and treatment of the patient with metabolic acidosis. In this installment, we look at case examples involving patients with multiple sclerosis and urosepsis; COPD, diabetes, and renal failure; and type 1 diabetes.

Tales of the Anion Gap, Part II: Metabolic Acidosis

Frank Brodkey, MD;Frank Brodkey

September 29th 2014

In this installment, we look at underlying causes of metabolic acidosis, approaches for evaluating patients with suspected metabolic acidosis, and why measurement of the anion gap is of great usefulness in these cases.

Tales of the Anion Gap, Part I

Frank Brodkey, MD;Frank Brodkey

September 8th 2014

The anion gap is extremely useful in the detection and analysis of metabolic acidosis and also intoxicants and some hematologic conditions.