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STEMI with Life-Threatening Hypokalemia and Incessant Torsades de Pointes

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Here is his ED ECG: There is obvious infero-posterior STEMI. What are you worried about in addition to his STEMI? At cath, he immediately had incessant Torsades de Pointes requiring defibrillation 7 times and requiring placement of a transvenous pacer for overdrive pacing at a rate of 80. There is atrial fibrillation.

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

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Internal potassium balance and the control of the plasma potassium concentration. to greatly decrease risk (although in STEMI, the optimal level is about 4.0-4.5 How would you treat? I could find very little literature on the treatment of severe life-threatening hypokalemia. mEq/L is 100-200 mEq of total body K, and from 3.0

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