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Pearls on Intensive Care Medicine Practice - Project "Critical Care A Day"
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Q:
Epinephrine causes (select one)?
A) Hypokalemia
B) Hyperkalemia
Answer:
Hypokalemia
Epinephrine enhances driving of potassium into the cells, causing or worsening preexisting hypokalemia.
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