Removal of potassium by and changes in serum potassium concentration with dialysis

Serum potassium concentration in hyperglycemia of chronic dialysis.

We analyzed abnormalities in serum potassium ([K]) in 40 episodes of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)--6 episodes in peritoneal dialysis (PD) and 34 episodes in hemodialysis (HD)--and in 245 episodes of nonketotic hyperglycemia (NKH)--70 episodes in PD and 175 episodes in HD. Serum glucose ([Glu]) was 25 mmol/L or higher in all episodes. We compared the PD and HD hyperglycemic episodes separately fo...

Serum Potassium Changes with E.c.t.

Serum potassium changes with direct E.C.T. and with modified E.C.T., given under three anaesthetic (thiopentone, diazepam and propanidid) and relaxant (suxamethonium) combinations were studied in 25 patients. Ten patients each, undergoing minor surgical procedures, acted as controls for these three combinations. Modified E.C.T. caused a rise in scram potassium, which, being highest at 3 minutes...

Prevention of suxamethonium-induced changes in serum potassium concentration by hexafluorenium. Is their combined use justified?

Sixty patients, none of whom was suffering from renal failure, received neurolept anaesthesia. They were divided into six groups of 10 patients each. Groups I and IV, II and V, and III and VI were given suxamethonium 0.2, 0.6 and 1.0 mg kg-1 respectively. Groups IV-VI were pretreated with hexafluorenium 0.3 mg kg-1. The serum potassium concentration decreased significantly after the induction o...

Serum potassium changes during induction of anaesthesia.

Serum potassium levels of 53 patients before and after induction with halothane and oxygen, halothane, nitrous oxide and oxygen, and thiopentone, showed a significant decrease after reaching the first surgical plane. After the administration of the depolarizing agent suxamethonium serum potassium levels increased significantly more in the two halothane groups than in the thiopentone group. It i...

Changes of serum potassium during renal homotransplantation.