Potassium chloride is given to any patient in the hospital with a low potassium. Normal K level is 3.5 - 5.0. Anything less than 3.0, they will give you potassium. You have to administer it slowly. If you give a bolus of it, it will cause asystole. When you undergo heart surgery, they give you potassium chloride to stop your heart. The surgeon cant place tiny sutures on a heart that is beating. The amount of potassium they give you is equivalent to 10,000 bananas. Once surgery is done, they give your heart a electrical shock, this causes the heart to contract, the contractions brings in fresh blood, clears the potassium out of your heart and is starts beating again.
Potassium chloride is given to any patient in the hospital with a low potassium. Normal K level is 3.5 - 5.0. Anything less than 3.0, they will give you potassium. You have to administer it slowly. If you give a bolus of it, it will cause asystole. When you undergo heart surgery, they give you potassium chloride to stop your heart. The surgeon cant place tiny sutures on a heart that is beating. The amount of potassium they give you is equivalent to 10,000 bananas. Once surgery is done, they give your heart a electrical shock, this causes the heart to contract, the contractions brings in fresh blood, clears the potassium out of your heart and is starts beating again.
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