Remove Blood Transfusions Remove CPR Remove EKG/ECG
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Grand Rounds Recap 6.19.2024

Taming the SRU

Other medical interventions include PPIs, octreotide, erythromycin, and blood transfusion as needed. Unresponsive patients with undetectable MAP or EtCO2 less than 20 should undergo CPR. Blood transfusion may be useful in patients with penetrating trauma, although we must acknowledge when efforts are futile.

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Episode 26 – Blunt Cardiac Injury: Emergency Department Diagnosis and Management (Trauma CME)

EB Medicine

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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Grand Rounds Recap 5.3.23

Taming the SRU

then need further evaluation Usually with CTA imaging If normal physical exam & ABI>0.9,