Hyperpotassemia vs hyperkalemia?

[NurseEric81]

I was transporting a nursing home resident when I looked on the chart and it said she had a hx of hyperpotassemia. Huh? I have always learned it as hyperkalemia. Have they changed it or is this more dumbing down of the medical language?

[amoLucia]

It's actually Coke. In the south, everything is Coke. "I'm going to the Coke machine, what kind of Coke do you want? (i.e Sprite, Diet Coke, etc.). No soda, no pop...only Coke :)

I'm a Pepsi lady. Guess that makes me a Yankee:rotfl:Just thought about it - a Yankee form South Jersey:)

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

Pop Chicago.....Soda New England. Tonic in Maine.