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The patient's ECG before (left) and after (right) the completion of the treatment.
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Although the QRS complexes were still wide (160 ms (Figure 1; left)), we did not administer additional bicarbonate because of the high pH. After administering 900 mEq of bicarbonate (2650 mEq in total), QRS became narrow (120 ms) (Figure 1; right).