Osmol gap

Serum osmotic gap
Synonymsosmolal gap, osmolality gap, osmolar gap[1] osmole gap[2]
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In clinical chemistry, the osmol gap is the difference between measured blood serum osmolality and calculated serum osmolality.

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  2. ^ Lynd LD, Richardson KJ, Purssell RA, et al. (2008). "An evaluation of the osmole gap as a screening test for toxic alcohol poisoning". BMC Emerg Med. 8: 5. doi:10.1186/1471-227X-8-5. PMC 2390580. PMID 18442409.
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