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Potassium acetate 2 MEQ/ML Injectable Solution — RxCUI 237381

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug
RxCUI 237381 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 4 FDA products 4 package NDCs Snapshot Jul 14, 2026

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🗂️ Key Facts

RxCUI237381
Official namePotassium acetate 2 MEQ/ML Injectable Solution
Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known asK+ Acetate 2 MEQ/ML Injectable Solution; Pot Acetate 2 MEQ/ML Injectable Solution; potassium acetate 196 MG per 1 ML Injectable Solution
FDA products mapped4
Package NDCs mapped4
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)13,437 prescriptions · 10 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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Our pharmacist-built guide to Potassium Acetate: what it is, how it’s used, side effects, and interactions.

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  • This form is used when you can't take anything by mouth — or when your potassium is low enough that your care team needs to replace it quickly and precisely. IV delivery gets the p...
  • Why am I getting potassium through an IV instead of just taking a pill?
  • Your team will keep a close eye on your heart tracing (ECG) and check your blood potassium levels regularly. That's because giving potassium too fast or in too high an amount can a...
  • What will the nurses be watching for while I get this IV?
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🕸️ Concept Web — How Potassium acetate 2 MEQ/ML Injectable Solution Connects

One RxCUI never lives alone. Follow the path from the raw ingredient down to the exact strength-and-form concepts FDA products carry — every stop is a real RxNorm concept with its own identifier. Hover or focus any chip for what it means.
This page's concept Potassium acetate 2 MEQ/ML Injectable Solution RxCUI 237381

Every web starts here: one RxCUI, one fixed meaning in the RxNorm vocabulary.

  1. Ingredients 1

    The active substance itself — no strength, form, or brand attached yet.

    • Potassium acetate 54987
  2. Dose forms 4

    The ingredient poured into a form — tablet, solution, cream — still without one fixed strength.

    • Potassium acetate Injectable Solution 373518
    • Potassium acetate Injectable Product 1160472
    • Injectable Solution 316949
    • Injectable Product 1151126
  3. Clinical & branded drugs 1

    Ingredient + strength + dose form. These are the concepts real FDA products actually carry.

    • Potassium acetate 2 MEQ/ML 333172

Showing up to 8 concepts per family — 6 of 6 stored related concepts drawn.
These are official RxNorm vocabulary relationships — how concepts name and organize the same medicine. They do not establish therapeutic equivalence or substitutability: two concepts appearing in one web is never a statement that products can be swapped.

🔀 Generic ⇄ Brand Crosswalk

The same medicine has an unbranded (generic) identity and one or more brand-name identities — each with its own RxCUI. This is a naming relationship in RxNorm, not a statement that any two products are substitutable.

Generic (Clinical) Concepts

  • Potassium acetate 2 MEQ/ML SCDC · 333172
  • Potassium acetate Injectable Solution SCDF · 373518
  • Potassium acetate Injectable Product SCDG · 1160472

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

4 products · 4 package NDCs
4 package NDCs map to RxCUI 237381 in the current snapshot — up to 50 per page. Each linked NDC opens its full package page.
Package NDC Package Brand / generic name Labeler Marketing start
00409-3294-25 25 VIAL, PHARMACY BULK PACKAGE in 1 TRAY (0409-3294-25) / 5... Potassium Acetate Hospira, Inc. 2013-12-23
00409-3294-51 25 VIAL, PHARMACY BULK PACKAGE in 1 TRAY (0409-3294-51) / 5... Potassium Acetate Hospira, Inc. 2005-07-05
51754-2004-04 25 VIAL, GLASS in 1 CARTON (51754-2004-4) / 100 mL in 1 VIA... Potassium Acetate Exela Pharma Sciences, LLC 2023-08-01
65219-0512-50 25 VIAL, PHARMACY BULK PACKAGE in 1 TRAY (65219-512-50) / 5... Potassium Acetate Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC 2024-11-27
Observed labelers: Hospira, Inc. (2) · Exela Pharma Sciences, LLC (1) · Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC (1) — this is the FDA-listed mapping footprint, not sales, inventory, availability, or market share.

🗃️ Sources & Limits

Atlas generation902fddb9-e9c1-4004-bf4c-dba4d51037c7
openFDA export observedJul 14, 2026
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Methodology2026-07-full-catalog-v1
  • A shared RxCUI does not prove interchangeability. Products mapped to the same concept are not thereby equivalent or substitutable — equivalence is a separate, product-level determination.
  • Listing here does not establish approval or coverage. Appearing in this snapshot is a data observation, not an FDA approval status or a payer coverage decision.
  • Missing data never means zero. A silent dataset (no price, no billing code, no utilization) means no observation — not that the real-world value is zero.
  • Counts describe the mapping footprint. Product, package, and labeler counts are the FDA-listed mapping footprint in this snapshot — not sales, inventory, availability, or market share.
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