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STEMI with Life-Threatening Hypokalemia and Incessant Torsades de Pointes

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He also had a history of chronic kidney disease, stage III. Angio had shown some acute disease in the saphenous vein graft to the posterior descending artery off of the RCA. If cardiac arrest from hypokalemia is imminent (i.e., Most recent echo showed EF of 60%. He had recently had a NonSTEMI. mEq/L, from 1.9

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