CellWell record HH-286791
The silent potassium avalanche: unchecking preoperative hypokalemia leading to perioperative cardiac arrest in an insulin-treated diabetic patient undergoing a Whipple procedure: a case report
Han W; Gao C; Zhao R
BMC anesthesiology ยท 2025
In plain language
In this case report, an insulin-treated woman with type 1 diabetes undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy had preoperative potassium fall from 5.28 to 2.71 mmol/L within three days after bowel preparation, followed by fatal cardiac arrest.
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