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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Shock. 2017 Mar;47(3):352–362. doi: 10.1097/SHK.0000000000000732

Figure 13.

Figure 13

Mean ± SD values of blood concentration of potassium, PaO2, HCO3−, lactate, and base excess before and during the 7th minutes of either KCN infusion 0.75 mg/kg/min (black-bars, n=4) or infusion of an equimolar solution of KCl (11.5 µmol/kg/min, gray bars, n=5). #, significant difference between KCl and KCN at 7 min, P<0.05. Note that changes in blood concentration of potassium were trivial during KCN and that KCN infusion was associated with a decrease in HCO3- along with a base deficit averaging −20 mmol/l reflecting the profound circulatory shock and possibly impediment of mitochondrial respiration.