s Medical records of 267 patients with normal potassium
and creatinine levels at admission who did not receive
total parenteral nutrition were reviewed. The 156 patients who
met the study criteria were categorized by group: those who
received potassium via maintenance intravenous fluid (treatment;
n = 76) and those who did not (control; n = 80). The treatment
group had potassium chloride or acetate added to intravenous
fluid delivered at 36 to 72 mmol/d