Hyperkalemia or Not? A Diagnostic Pitfall in the Emergency Department
These data show that about one third of all hyperkalemic blood samples drawn in the ED were due to factitious hyperkalemia. The leading cause of factitious hyperkalemia was spurious hyperkalemia due to in-vitro hemolysis.
Authors
- Christian Hans Nickel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6619-9284)
- Florian Riede
- Tito Bosia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1547-7541)
- Frank‐Peter Stephan
- Roland M Bingisser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8223-9792)
- Luca Ünlü (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0670-5840)
- Gioele Capoferri
- Axel Regeniter
Institutions
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CH)
- University Hospital of Basel (CH)
- Center for Pediatric Endocrinology Zurich (CH)
- Solothurner Spitäler (CH)
- Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences (AT)
- Kantonsspital Aarau (CH)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
- Published
- 2024-11-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5811/westjem.35286
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Potassium and Related Disorders
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.42