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Patient with severe DKA, look at the ECG

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

We could not resuscitate her, but we did have excellent perfusion with LUCAS CPR, such that pulse oximetry had excellent waveform and 100% saturations, end tidal CO2 was 35, and cerebral perfusion monitoring was near normal throughout the attempted resuscitation. mEq/L, the associated loss is double, at 200-400 mEq.* [ Sterns RH, et al.

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STEMI with Life-Threatening Hypokalemia and Incessant Torsades de Pointes

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

the associated loss is double, at 200-400 mEq.* [ Sterns RH, et al. Internal potassium balance and the control of the plasma potassium concentration. Plasma potassium ([K] p ) was measured at 15-minute intervals during and after the infusion in 31 patients. The estimated deficit associated with a serum decrease from 4.0

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Severe shock, obtunded, and a diagnostic prehospital ECG. Also: How did this happen?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

the associated loss is double, at 200-400 mEq.* [ Sterns RH, et al. Internal potassium balance and the control of the plasma potassium concentration. The estimated deficit associated with a serum decrease from 4.0 mEq/L is 100-200 mEq of total body K, and from 3.0 Medicine (Baltimore) 1981;60:339-54].

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An EM Resident’s Guide to Basic Airway Management

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This graph shows the gaseous equivalent volume of oxygen stored in the lungs, bound to hemoglobin, and dissolved in the plasma for people breathing room air (far left) vs the same people pre-oxygenated by breathing 100% O2 (far right), and then after they have desatted to 90% while apneic (center). et al (2022). Baker JB, et al.

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