In a patient suffering a severe burn, blood potassium levelsrise due to the tissues dying and the cells rupturing and releasingtheir contents into the blood. In a patient suffering a severeburn, the blood potassium level is 8.7 mM while the intracellularlevel for the intact cells slightly rises to 160 mM.
2. Calculate the resting membrane potential using the abovevalues for potassium and 14 mM for the internal concentration ofsodium and 140 mM as the external concentration of sodium.
