EB Medicine

JANUARY 25, 2025

Eckler, MD discuss the January 2025 Emergency Medicine Practice article, Alkali Exposure: An Evidence-Based Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment Patient Demographics and Case Scenarios: Types of patients prone to alkali exposure Causes and scenarios leading to alkali exposure (e.g.,

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Poisoning EKG/ECG Airway Management Resuscitation 78

Emergency Medicine Cases

JUNE 18, 2024

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Airway Management Poisoning EMS EKG/ECG 73

Thinking Critical Care

MAY 20, 2023

Building on the energy and ethos that Philippe has curated in the Resuscitation side, I’m thrilled to bring a killer set of on-demand lectures and in-person content delivered by a top-notch, multi-disciplinary faculty. The Resuscitative TEE Course , run by none other than Felipe Teran is back again! This is gold.

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Airway Management Resuscitation EKG/ECG CPR 95

Northwestern EM Blog

MARCH 1, 2025

Hemodynamic instability and ongoing cardiac arrhythmias are a strong contraindication as chest access for cardiopulmonary resuscitation is limited (Koulouras et. Remove ECG leads and patches. Turn the patients face toward the ventilator to ensure that the airway is not kinked. Reattach EKG leads to back.

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Emergency Department Fractures EKG/ECG Wellness 52

Mind The Bleep

DECEMBER 19, 2023

ECG: to monitor T wave changes due to hypokalaemia. ECG features of Hypokalaemia: Increased P wave amplitude (peaked P waves) Prolonged PR interval Widespread ST depression T wave flattening or inversion Prominent U waves (most noticeable in the precordial leads) Figure 2 : ECG of a patient with serum K+ of 1.9

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Dehydration Fluid Resuscitation Shock Resuscitation 98

EMDocs

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

ECG – May show tachycardia or rate related ST depressions Laboratory evaluation: CBC w/ differential – may reveal leukocytosis with left shift CMP, Lipase – can reveal alternative intra-abdominal diagnoses as well as show findings of end-organ hypoperfusion (elevated serum creatinine, transaminitis, etc.)

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Operations Radiology Radiology Fluid Resuscitation 86

EB Medicine

MARCH 1, 2019

Again, no standard definition exists, with some diagnostic criteria including simply chest pain and increasing cardiac enzymes, and others including cardiac dysfunction, ecg abnormalities, wall motion abnormalities, and an elevation of cardiac enzymes. New EKG findings requires admission for monitoring. of those patients.

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Emergency Department EKG/ECG Operations Fractures 40