Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support for hypokalemia-induced cardiac arrest: A case report and review of the literature

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 159-164

  Palatinus, Joseph A ^a   Lieber, Sarah B ^a   Joyce, Katherine E ^a   Richards, Jeremy B ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac arrest; extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; hypokalemia

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; AMILORIDE; AMIODARONE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORIDE; CREATINE KINASE; NORADRENALIN; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM; SPIRONOLACTONE; VASOPRESSIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUTHORITY; BOLUS INJECTION; CASE REPORT; CHLORIDE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DEFIBRILLATION; DETENTION; DYSPHAGIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; EXTUBATION; FLUID INTAKE; HEART ARREST; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOKINESIA; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PATCH ANGIOPLASTY; PERONEUS NERVE PARALYSIS; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; POTASSIUM DEPLETION; POTASSIUM URINE LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT INTERVAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; RESUSCITATION; SINUS RHYTHM; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; URINE VOLUME; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; VOCAL CORD DISORDER; YOUNG ADULT; COMPLICATION;

EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HYPOKALEMIA; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84938208631     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2015.02.046     Document Type: Article

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