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Heart Rhythm Society’s HRX 2024 to Draw Cardiovascular Innovators to Atlanta

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6 , the program will include, among networking and roundtables, the following: HRX Pitch Competition #1 Cardiac Arrest, the Next Digital Health Frontier: Mina K. Kathryn Zavala | Stephen Flaim | Giovanni Leo | Daniel Gottlieb | David Kim | David Roman During day two of HRX 2024, Friday, Sept.

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Patient with severe DKA, look at the ECG

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

IV administration of potassium is indicated when arrhythmias are present or hypokalemia is severe (potassium level of less than 2.5 If cardiac arrest from hypokalemia is imminent (i.e., malignant ventricular arrhythmias are present), rapid replacement of potassium is required. Is 40 mEq too much? Or the right amount?

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Severe shock, obtunded, and a diagnostic prehospital ECG. Also: How did this happen?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

She had home health nurse visits, and a BMP was sent the next day (the day prior to admission, presumably after 120 mEq of KCl replacement -- if she was taking as directed). IV administration of potassium is indicated when arrhythmias are present or hypokalemia is severe (potassium level of less than 2.5 How would you treat?

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STEMI with Life-Threatening Hypokalemia and Incessant Torsades de Pointes

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

IV administration of potassium is indicated when arrhythmias are present or hypokalemia is severe (potassium level of less than 2.5 If cardiac arrest from hypokalemia is imminent (i.e., malignant ventricular arrhythmias are present), rapid replacement of potassium is required. Is 40 mEq too much? Or the right amount?

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Should we activate the cath lab? A Quiz on 5 Cases.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Triage is backed up, and 10 minutes into your shift one of the ED nurses brings your several ECG s that has not been overread by a physician. Smith: This bizarre ECG looks like a post cardiac arrest ECG with probable acidosis or hyperkalemia in addition to OMI. Imagine you just started your ED shift. What was the pH and K?

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Anterior OMI with RBBB has VF x 3: how to prevent further episodes of VF?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

I'll never forget when I ordered such an infusion in 1991 and then my patient started seizing and I looked up and the nurse had hung the lidocaine wide open! If breakthrough ventricular arrhythmias occurred, additional 50-mg boluses were given every 5 minutes, as needed to a maximum of 325 mg. DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2025.110515