Electrocardiographic Changes during Hemodialysis with the Artificial Kidney

Electrocardiographic changes during hemodialysis with the artificial kidney.

IN A PREVIOUS communication' we reported that hemodialysis with the artificial kidney consistently corrects acidosis, hyperpotassemia, and hypocalcemia. We have observed, as have others,2 3 that the patient with heart disease receiving digitalis may manifest electrocardiographic changes of "digitalis effeet" and toxicity during repair of fluid and electrolyte imbalance. The management of digita...

Electrocardiographic changes during oesophagogastroscopy.

BACKGROUND Oesophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) should be very safe, but there are many potential hazards, although the rate of serious complications is small. There are so many complications that can arise during this procedure. Most of these complications involve the respiratory or cardiovascular systems, especially in sick or sedated patients.The aim of this study was to determine the various e...

Artificial kidney function; kinetics of hemodialysis.

Electrocardiographic Changes during Lithium Treatment

Electrocardiographic changes have been reported during therapy with psychotropic drugs—such as tricyclic anti-depressants (Schou 1963 ; Burrows et al., 1976 ; Reed and McKim 1978) and lithium (Tilkian et al., 1976a, 1976b; Wren and Dana 1976; Jefferson and Greist 1979). Lithium Carbonate affects ionic fluxes across cell membranes—-particularly those of sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium (...

Electrocardiographic changes during pressure breathing.

It was recognized many years ago that the form of the electrocardiogram could be modified by a voluntary increase of breathing pressure, as during the Valsalva manceuvre (Kahn, 1909). During the early part of the second world war further studies were undertaken by German workers (Zettel and Fink, 1939; Muller, 1941), and it was found that it was altered even by the small fluctuations of breathi...