Hyperpotassemia vs hyperkalemia?

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?
uh....never heard of it.maybe it was a dumb nurse who couldn't remember the terminology?"i know it's hyper something....sounds good to me!"of course, i could be wrong.....

I think this diagnosis was written by an "older" doc.Certainly wouldn't sweat the small stuff. Anything over 5.5 starts ME sweating.

I just searched hyperpotassemia and it actually comes up in medical articles! Oh my! Why? Because I thought this language had been around for MANY years! That just burns my onion!

Quote from brassguyI 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?

Must be caused by hypoknowlegemia.

Quote from nurse2033Must be caused by hypoknowlegemia.

Quote from nurse2033Must be caused by hypoknowlegemia.

Like everything else every one wants to coin their own phrase and make it new. Whether it is Heart attack, AMI (acute mypcardial infarction) or Non-STEMI or STEMI (ST elevation myocardial infarction). Once it was PVD (peripheral vascular dissease) is now PAD (peripheral arterial disease).Potato, Potatoe. Tomato, tomatoe.

when i went from east coast to california nobody knew what i meant when i said, "dmi." they were all "imis" there. i started joking with my patients that you would have either and ekg or and ecg depending on whether your physician went to stanford or harvard. then i moved back and had to learn all over again.

It's just a replacement of the Latin kalium with the English potassium.Is it soda or is it pop?

Quote from ScottEIt's just a replacement of the Latin kalium with the English potassium.Is it soda or is it pop?

Quote from DixieleeIt'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