2017 Operations Point-of-Care Testing 
Taming the SRU
AUGUST 30, 2023
A 2017 review in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine reiterates that no single inflammatory markers (including CRP, ESR, and PCT) can be used as a stand-alone test to confirm or exclude infection, but instead advocates for using the tests as adjunctive information for emergency physicians to shape their pre-test probability of infection [26].
EB Medicine
JANUARY 2, 2019
Nachi: This month’s issue was authored by Dr. Ryan Pedigo, you may remember him from the June 2017 episode on dental emergencies, though he is perhaps better known as the director of undergraduate medical education at Harbor-UCLA Medical center. Jeff: Up first is the urine pregnancy test. Gadolinium should always be avoided.
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