ECG changes, in general, have poor sensitivities for hyperkalemia in patients with ESRD and should not be used to exclude the diagnosis. There are over 700,000 individuals with ESRD in the United ...

This DLM, using 2 ECG leads, turned out to be highly sensitive, detecting hyperkalemia in patients with CKD with an area under the curve (AUC) between 0.853 and 0.883 (See table).

Reference Rivera-Juárez A, Hernández-Romero I, Puertas C, et al. Clinical characteristics and electrophysiological mechanisms underlying Brugada ECG in patients with severe hyperkalemia.

Building on research correlating hyperkalemia to ECG findings, AliveCor worked with the Mayo Clinic to develop an algorithm capable of linking the dots. This entailed training and testing an ...

However, hyperkalemia is insidious in its cardiotoxic potential; in the presence of hyperkalemia, ECG changes can emerge quickly and progress equally rapidly.

But in general, he says, hyperkalemia will produce a clear abnormality in the ECG, and he has initiated treatments in patients based on the EKG before getting a blood test back to confirm.

Sinus bradycardia 3rd degree AV block Ventricular escape Hyperkalemia This is quite an unusal ECG. The QRS morphology is unlike anything normally seen.

In that group, the study claimed, the device’s sensitivity for hyperkalemia was 94 percent, with specificity at 74 percent.