Hyperkalemia during cardiac pacing

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-3

  Barold, S Serge ^a,b   Leonelli, Fabio ^a   Herweg, Bengt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM;

EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART PACING; HEART RHYTHM; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERNATREMIA; NONHUMAN; P WAVE; PACEMAKER; QRS COMPLEX;

ANIMALS; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; HUMANS; HYPERKALEMIA;

EID: 33846266592     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00567.x     Document Type: Editorial

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