Electrocardiography is unreliable in detecting potentially lethal hyperkalaemia in haemodialysis patients

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1639-1642

  Aslam, Shakil ^a   Friedman, Eli A ^a   Ifudu, Onyekachi ^a,b  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SUNY Downstate Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrythmia; Calcium; Chronic renal failure; ECG; ESRD; Haemodialysis; Hyperkalaemia; Potassium; T wave

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; POTASSIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 0036712883     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/17.9.1639     Document Type: Article

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