Taming the SRU

JUNE 26, 2024

Other medical interventions include PPIs, octreotide, erythromycin, and blood transfusion as needed. Factors that improve survival rates include cardiac activity on ultrasound, initial shockable rhythm, witnessed arrest, extremity only trauma, and bystander CPR. Early endoscopy is key to both diagnosis and therapeutics.

Blood Transfusions 87

Blood Transfusions Sepsis CPR EKG/ECG 87

EMDocs

MAY 15, 2024

ECG: Evaluate for ischemia, right heart strain. Ultrasound Sensitivity 88-100%, specificity 68-94% Positive likelihood ratio of 14.6 (95% Markers for severe disease include hypoxemia, increasing respiratory rate or work of breathing, decreasing platelet count and/or Hb, and multilobar involvement on chest radiograph or lung ultrasound.

Blood Transfusions 97

Blood Transfusions Fluid Resuscitation Dehydration Ultrasounds 97

EMDocs

MAY 28, 2024

ECG: Evaluate for ischemia, right heart strain. Ultrasound Sensitivity 88-100%, specificity 68-94% LR+ of 14.6 (95% Blood transfusion Reduces the overall proportion of HbS. Overestimates arterial oxygen saturation. Up to 3x less accurate in black patients. When the clinical picture does not match the SpO 2 , get an ABG.

Blood Transfusions 94

Blood Transfusions Fluid Resuscitation Dehydration Ultrasounds 94

Taming the SRU

AUGUST 4, 2024

In select patient populations (such as those with poor outpatient follow-up), screening with a BMP to evaluate their serum creatinine may be beneficial Patients with asymptomatic hypertension should be referred to their PCP for outpatient follow-up.

Dislocations 85

Dislocations Emergency Department Documentation/Coding Burns 85

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.

Emergency Department 40

Emergency Department EKG/ECG Operations Fractures 40