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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. 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 He was managed medically with Clopidogrel.

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