Hyperkalemia and ionized hypocalcemia during cardiac arrest and resuscitation: Possible culprits for postcountershock arrhythmias?

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-7

  Niemann, J T ^a   Cairns, C B ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; LACTIC ACID; POTASSIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTERIAL PH; ARTICLE; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPOCALCEMIA; ION TRANSPORT; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION;

EID: 0032983967     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-0644(99)70265-9     Document Type: Article

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