Cardiac arrest from acute hyperkalemia during liver surgery -A case report-

We experienced a case of sudden onset of hyperkalemia during liver lobectomy and this was followed by ventricular tachycardia and cardiac arrest. The main cause of this fatality is assumed to be the wide range of surgical manipulation that induced reduced hepatic blood flow and ischemic necrosis of...

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Autores principales: Lee, Su-Hyun, Kim, Ki-Jun, Chang, Chul-Ho, Heo, Sang-Baeg
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Anesthesiologists 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3030016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21286420
http://dx.doi.org/10.4097/kjae.2010.59.S.S124
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Sumario:We experienced a case of sudden onset of hyperkalemia during liver lobectomy and this was followed by ventricular tachycardia and cardiac arrest. The main cause of this fatality is assumed to be the wide range of surgical manipulation that induced reduced hepatic blood flow and ischemic necrosis of the hepatic cells. We report here on this case and we review the relevant medical literature.

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