AMUDPILES A Med School Mnemonic

What causes increased anion gaps in plasma?
Aspirin
Methanol
Uremia
Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)
Paraldehyde
Ischemia / Infarct
Lactic acidosis
Ethanol / ethylene glycol
Sepsis / Starvation

(Lyrics below:)

I went to Goodnight-White's lung lecture,
One on acid/base.
There's anions we don't measure in plasma like citrate.
And some things make anion gap in plasma grow and grow.
AMUDPILES mnemonic is the thing we ought to know

Aspirin!
Methanol!
Uremia and Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)
Paraldehyde, Ischemia / Infarct
Lactic acidosis
Ethanol / ethylene glycol
Sepsis and Starvation
All increase unmeasured anionic concentrations!

(repeat-minor variations)
Now you can say it backwards, which would be SELIPDUMA, but that's going a bit too far, don't you think?
Indubitably!
All increase unmeasured anionic concentrations!

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• acid
• base
• biochemistry

[JGamdi]

I'm not underestimating it . thank you for this video !

i wish u pls write the lyrics on the video or in the annotation of the video

thanks again .. with my regards

[englishgalmd]

@JGamdi I see. :-) I just added the lyrics. Hope that helps! Have a great day!

[JGamdi]

@englishgalmd THANK YOU so much sir, you are the bestttt

i wish you accept the friend request :)

thank you again and again

[englishgalmd]

@JGamdi You're welcome. :-D I hope you don't mind, but I am reserving friend requests for people I'd want to share special videos with, like my family. Good luck and have a wonderful day!

[JGamdi]

stupid one jajajaja

[englishgalmd]

@JGamdi Hmm think I forgot a part of that song--

You might think it's stupid but it might just save your life

(For example?) (Uh yes?)

One time a guy drank methanol thinking it was the kind of alcohol you can drink and became acidotic, but luckily, his ER doctors knew AMUDPILES and figured out why and helped him survive--and a lovely thing it is too.)

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[JGamdi]

i'm kidding . i believe that in knowledge and education there is nothing of no importance ... such mnemonics is helpful and they stick to the mind with superglue .. sometime u r singing a mnemonic without u feeling of ur self ^^

in our old arabic tradition the old arab use to put things in poems and mnemonic especially the things need to be memorize ( events , steps , grammar of language and things need to be enumerated )

[englishgalmd]

@Imari7 Thanks!

[Imari7]

That is a GREAT song!!