HughesMedicine - Pharmacotherapy Pearls from the Internal Medicine Clinical Pharmacist
Monday, June 8, 2026
Phosphorus Repletion: Products and their Electrolytes
Monitoring and balancing electrolytes seems to be an inevitable daily function of physicians and other healthcare professionals in the internal medicine and intensive care settings. Sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, and phosphorus seem to constantly need attention when a patient is ill in the hospital (and also because you're checking them every day, sometimes with and sometimes without good reason).
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