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| style="border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(211, 211, 211) rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-width: 1px; border-style: solid dotted solid solid; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: top; padding: 0.4em 0.6em 0.6em;" | If severe (temperature &lt;30°C), limit initial shocks for V-Fib or pulseless V-Tach to three; initiate active internal rewarming and cardiopulmonary support. Hold further resuscitation medications or shocks until core temperature is &gt;30°C.
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| style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: top; border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 0.4em 0.6em 0.6em;" | Consider in all patients with cardiac arrest, especially those with a history of coronary artery disease or prearrest acute coronary syndrome 
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| style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: top; border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 0.4em 0.6em 0.6em; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" | Metabolic acidosis, excessive administration of potassium, drugs and toxins, vigorous exercise, hemolysis, renal disease, rhabdomyolysis, tumor lysis syndrome, and clinically significant tissue injury 
| style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: top; border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 0.4em 0.6em 0.6em; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" | If hyperkalemia is identified or strongly suspected, treat with all of the following: 10 percent calcium chloride (5-10 mL by slow intravenous push; do not use if hyperkalemia is secondary to digitalis poisoning), glucose and insulin (50 mL of 50 percent dextrose in water and 10 units of regular insulin intravenously), sodium bicarbonate (50 mmoL intravenously; most effective if concomitant metabolic acidosis is present), and albuterol (15-20 mg nebulized or 0.5 mg by intravenous infusion)
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| style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: top; border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 0.4em 0.6em 0.6em; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" | If profond hypokalemia (&lt;2-2.5 mmoL of potassium per liter) is accompanied by cardiac arrest, initiate urgent intravenous replacement (2 mmoL/min intravenously for 10-15 mmoL), then reassess
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== See Also ==
[[ACLS (Main)]] 

[[Category:Cards]] [[Category:Airway/Resus]]