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STEMI with Life-Threatening Hypokalemia and Incessant Torsades de Pointes

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

There is atrial fibrillation. Comments: STEMI with hypokalemia, especially with a long QT, puts the patient at very high risk of Torsades or Ventricular fibrillation (see many references, with abstracts, below). If cardiac arrest from hypokalemia is imminent (i.e., mEq/L: The STE is resolved. mEq/L, from 1.9

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