2023, Point-of-Care Testing and Shock

Diagnostics: Inflammatory Markers

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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].

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Noisy, low amplitude ECG in a patient with chest pain

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JANUARY 15, 2024

The patient was tremulous and severely hypoglycemic by point-of-care testing. Tachycardia is unusual for OMI, unless the patient is in cardiogenic shock (or getting close). Jenkins and Frick — or additional procedures may be ordered and/or patients shocked for artifact simulating VT/VFib ).

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Diagnostics: Inflammatory Markers

Noisy, low amplitude ECG in a patient with chest pain

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