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“As plasma potassium concentrations, whether normal or elevated, can be reduced by intravenous administration of either epinephrine or ritodrine , the effects of these drugs were examined during acute hyperkalemia.”
“Although maternal and fetal plasma sodium and chloride concentrations did not change, the potassium decreased in a dose-dependent manner both in the ewe and in the fetus following sequential ritodrine infusion.”