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STEMI with Life-Threatening Hypokalemia and Incessant Torsades de Pointes

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

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. Here is his ED ECG: There is obvious infero-posterior STEMI. What are you worried about in addition to his STEMI? If the patient is at 1.8,

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Potassium 6.2 with narrow QRS: any indication for calcium?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

2] Curiously, ACLS does not include consideration of calcium in its bradycardia algorithm, which could have prevented the arrest and which along with the epi produced ROSC. HyperKalemia with Cardiac Arrest. Acute hyperkalemia in the emergency department: a summary from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes conference.