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Bubble Wrap PLUS – June 2023

Don't Forget the Bubbles

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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 March 17, 2023 post — for PTA.

EKG/ECG 67
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Diagnostics: Inflammatory Markers

Taming the SRU

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].