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Cardiac arrest due to oral potassium intake
H J Schim van der Loeff1, R J Strack van Schijndel, L G Thijs
1Medical Intensive Care Unit, Free University Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Intensive Care Medicine
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
A 29-year-old woman suffered a cardiac arrest, due to profound hyperkalaemia, caused by the use of a potassium-containing salt substitute. She was resuscitated, but post-hypoxic brain damage occurred. Some of the sparse literature is reviewed.