Hyperkalemic Emergency: When You Have Taken a Few Too Many KCl Tablets

Hyperkalemia is a common clinical problem that varies significantly in severity and indications for treatment. Hyperkalemic emergency exists when there are clinical signs or symptoms, including cardiac conduction abnormalities. The combination of nebulized albuterol and insulin with glucose is most...

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Autores principales: Ibrahim, Mahmoud, Seto, Christina, MacIntosh, Tracy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7571776/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33094043
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10499
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description Hyperkalemia is a common clinical problem that varies significantly in severity and indications for treatment. Hyperkalemic emergency exists when there are clinical signs or symptoms, including cardiac conduction abnormalities. The combination of nebulized albuterol and insulin with glucose is most effective for managing clinically significant hyperkalemia. Prompt recognition of hyperkalemic emergency, immediate interventions to lower extracellular potassium, and involvement of multiple disciplines (including critical care and nephrology) are essential to addressing this life-threatening presentation.
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spelling pubmed-75717762020-10-21 Hyperkalemic Emergency: When You Have Taken a Few Too Many KCl Tablets Ibrahim, Mahmoud Seto, Christina MacIntosh, Tracy Cureus Emergency Medicine Hyperkalemia is a common clinical problem that varies significantly in severity and indications for treatment. Hyperkalemic emergency exists when there are clinical signs or symptoms, including cardiac conduction abnormalities. The combination of nebulized albuterol and insulin with glucose is most effective for managing clinically significant hyperkalemia. Prompt recognition of hyperkalemic emergency, immediate interventions to lower extracellular potassium, and involvement of multiple disciplines (including critical care and nephrology) are essential to addressing this life-threatening presentation. Cureus 2020-09-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7571776/ /pubmed/33094043 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10499 Text en Copyright © 2020, Ibrahim et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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