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Noisy, low amplitude ECG in a patient with chest pain

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

The patient was tremulous and severely hypoglycemic by point-of-care testing. Here is the Queen's interpretation, with Explainability: She has high confidence The clinicians taking care of the patient did appreciate the inferior STE, but noted that it was less than 1 mm. The August 26, 2019 post — baseline artifact.

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Diagnostics: Inflammatory Markers

Taming the SRU

The 2019 Journal of Arthroplasty practice guidelines to screen for periprosthetic joint infections recommend using ESR at 30mm/hr and CRP at 10mg/L, citing pooled sensitivities and specificities ranging from 75%-86% and 70-72.3%, respectively, for ESR and 88% and 73-74%, respectively, for CRP [32]. 2019 Feb;34(2S):S187-S195.

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Episode 24 - First Trimester Pregnancy Emergencies: Recognition and Management

EB Medicine

Jeff: With that, let’s get into the first episode of 2019 – the topic this month is first trimester pregnancy emergencies: recognition and management. Jeff: Great starting point since there is certainly a lot of debate about the discriminatory zone. For a threatened abortion, the os would be closed with an IUP seen on ultrasound.