Etiology and symptoms of severe hypokalemia in emergency department patients

European Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 46-51

  Marti, Grischa ^a   Schwarz, Christoph ^b   Leichtle, Alexander B ^a   Fiedler, Georg Martin ^a   Arampatzis, Spyridon ^a   Exadaktylos, Aristomenis K ^a   Lindner, Gregor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

emergency; hypokalemia; potassium; symptoms

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; LAXATIVE; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; MAGNESIUM; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; THIAZIDE DIURETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COLLAPSE; CONSTIPATION; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECOMPENSATED LIVER CIRRHOSIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEPATORENAL SYNDROME; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERNATREMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; METABOLIC ALKALOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CRAMP; MYALGIA; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; RESPIRATORY ALKALOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SEPTIC SHOCK; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; SYMPTOM; U WAVE; VOMITING; WEAKNESS;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOKALEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84891846930     PISSN: 09699546     EISSN: 14735695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MEJ.0b013e3283643801     Document Type: Article

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