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STEMI with Life-Threatening Hypokalemia and Incessant Torsades de Pointes

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Bedside ultrasound showed no effusion and moderately decreased LV function, with B-lines of pulmonary edema. There is also bradycardia. Bradycardia puts patients at risk for "pause-dependent" Torsades de Pointes. Angio had shown some acute disease in the saphenous vein graft to the posterior descending artery off of the RCA.

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