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A 67 year old male is admitted to hospital with self-neglect. He lives alone and has frequent previous admissions with alcohol withdrawal. On admission he looks malnourished, is tachycardic at 110 bpm and hypertensive at 160/87 mmHg. He complains of nausea. His drug history consists of thiamine and omeprazole. His serum potassium is 2.7 mmol/L with serum bicarbonate 32 mmol/L, blood urea 3.3 mmol/L and serum creatinine 47 μmol/L.
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Fairweather, J., Findlay, M., Isles, C. (2020). Hypokalaemia. In: Clinical Companion in Nephrology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38320-6_6
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