Abstract
We evaluated the relationship between hyperkalemia and wide QRS complex in patients with pulseless electrical activity (PEA) cardiac arrest. This was a single-center, retrospective observational study of patients over the age of 18 treated for cardiac arrest at a tertiary referral hospital whose initial electrocardiogram rhythm was PEA from February 2010 to December 2019. Wide QRS PEA was defined as a QRS interval of 120ms or more. Hyperkalemia was defined as serum potassium level>5.5mmol/L. The primary outcome was hyperkalemia. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was used to evaluate the relationship between wide QRS and hyperkalemia. Among 617 patients, we analyzed 111 episodes in the wide QRS group and 506 episodes in the narrow QRS group. The potassium level in the wide QRS group was significantly higher than in the narrow QRS group (5.4mmol/L, IQR 4.4-6.7 vs. 4.6mmol/L, IQR 4.0-5.6, P<0.001). Among all patients, 49.6% (n=55/111) in the wide QRS group had hyperkalemia, which was significantly higher than the 26.7% (n=135/506) in the narrow QRS group (P<0.001). In multivariable logistic regression analysis, wide QRS PEA was significantly associated with hyperkalemia (odds ratio=2.86, 95% confidence interval: 1.80-4.53, P<0.001). Wide QRS PEA as an initial cardiac rhythm was significantly associated with hyperkalemia in cardiac arrest patients.
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