Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JUNE 13, 2024

Click here to sign up for Queen of Hearts Access Case A 58-year-old woman presented to the ED with burning chest pain that started 2-3 hours earlier while sitting on a porch swing. They sued the the county-operated EMS service for allegedly not dispatching the call fast enough.

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EKG/ECG Documentation/Coding EMS Burns 93

Taming the SRU

AUGUST 4, 2024

The largest retrospective cohort study to date (Beyde et al.) shows that most will improve with empiric antibiotics.

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Dislocations Emergency Department Documentation/Coding Burns 85

ACEP Now

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Today Dr. Calderon is known for her research into HIV and Hepatitis C prevention, but she didn’t start off on an academic track. Her inner drive to help others, first sparked when the was a child living in the Manhattan projects, still burns bright today. Dr. Calderon focuses on the next step forward, one inch of progress at a time.

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Research Point-of-Care Testing Burns Academics 52

Taming the SRU

AUGUST 30, 2023

However, PCT can be elevated in severe trauma, such as burns or surgery [5,25]. A 2011 meta-analysis in the journal of Academic Emergency Medicine found ESR, CRP, and PCT were not acutely useful in the diagnosis of septic arthritis due to wildly varying sensitivities and specificities between studies.

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Infectious Diseases Sepsis Emergency Department Point-of-Care Testing 89

Sensible Medicine

MARCH 1, 2025

By Leslie Bienen Since the NIH order on February 7 th capping indirect funds to grantees at 15%, the “outrage machine” that is X is filled with mostly fact-free criticisms of the NIH and academic research. A 2022 report from the Biotechnology Innovation Organization noted academic patents alone contributed $1.9

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