Sentence examples for dose of potassium from inspiring English sources
The recommended dose of potassium iodide for adults is 130 milligrams a day.
On a videotape shown nationally on the CBS News program "60 Minutes" Sunday, Dr. Kevorkian said he injected Mr. Youk with a fatal dose of potassium chloride.
Mr. Youk was shown on CBS News' "60 Minutes" receiving a lethal dose of potassium chloride from Dr. Kevorkian, who says he has assisted in more than 130 deaths.
Early action is critical because it takes three to four hours for a dose of potassium iodide to affect the thyroid, flushing it with harmless iodine and preventing the absorption of radioactive iodine, officials said.
The petition, which was published Thursday in the newsmagazine Le Nouvel Observateur, comes days before the trial of a doctor and a nurse charged with administering a fatal dose of potassium to a woman suffering from terminal pancreatic cancer in 2003.
The note said: "On Saturday, March 17th in the strictest secrecy Comrade Krupskaya told me of 'Vladimir Ilyich's request to Stalin,' namely that I, Stalin, should take the responsibility for finding and administering to Lenin a dose of potassium cyanide.
The department already had a little more than 15 doses of midazolam, which expire in April 2017, and 16 doses of potassium chloride, which expire in January 2017.
Connecticut will stockpile hundreds of thousands of doses of potassium iodide, a drug that can limit radiation damage to humans in case of a nuclear power plant emergency.
At the Washington conference, pediatricians complained that there are no federally accepted standards for children's doses of potassium iodide against thyroid cancer, of atropine and pralidoxime against nerve gas or of antibiotics against anthrax.
A nurse accused of injecting six patients with fatal doses of potassium chloride was acquitted of murder today by a jury that found her guilty but mentally ill on one count of aggravated assault.
