Hindawi Publishing Corporation Case Reports in Emergency Medicine

Copyright © 2012 Nathaniel Lisenbee et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We present a case of a potentially lethal ingestion of potassium pills. After presentation, we briefly review the epidemiology and pathology of hyperkalemia. 1. Case Presentation The patient is a 38-year-old male that was transferred to our emergency department (ED) from an outside hospital status post cardiac arrest. The patient was an inmate at a local prison who was found unresponsive in his prison cell. Emergency Medical Services (EMS) was called for medical support. Minimal health information was provided by the prison. The patient was found by EMS to be in ventricular tachycardia with a palpable pulse and was intubated on the scene. The patient was given 150mg of amiodarone