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STEMI with Life-Threatening Hypokalemia and Incessant Torsades de Pointes

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If cardiac arrest from hypokalemia is imminent (i.e., As I indicated above, in our cardiac arrest case, after pushing 40 mEq, the K only went up to 4.2 Crit Care Med 1991; 19:694) Concentrated Potassium Chloride Infusions in Critically Ill Patients with Hypokalemia The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.

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