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An elderly male with acute altered mental status and huge ST Elevation

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

A man in his 90s with a history of HTN, CKD, COPD, and OSA presented to the emergency department after being found unresponsive at home. With EMS, patient had a GCS of 3 and was saturating 60% on room air. Preliminary findings documented in the cath lab were “Anterior STEMI and no significant coronary artery disease.” (!!!)

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Diffuse Subendocardial Ischemia on the ECG. Left main? 3-vessel disease? No!

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

It was edited by Smith CASE : A 52-year-old male with a past medical history of hypertension and COPD summoned EMS with complaints of chest pain, weakness and nausea. Clinical Course The paramedic activated a “Code STEMI” alert and transported the patient nearly 50 miles to the closest tertiary medical center. What do you see?

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Episode 21- Updates and Controversies in the Early Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock

EB Medicine

Sepsis is coming in at a higher readmission rate and cost per admission than acute MI, CHF, COPD, and PNA. Jeff : I’m an EMS fellow, what can I say… Anyway, on to my favorite section -- prehospital care. Another study, however, showed knowledge gaps by advanced EMS providers in diagnosis and management of sepsis. vasopressin.

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A woman in her 20s with syncope

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Cardiology emergently came down to see the patient and took her immediately to the cath lab for a pericardiocentesis (if the cardiologist and cath lab had not been immediately available, then the EM team would have needed to perform pericardiocentesis). A pericardiocentesis was performed by the subxiphoid approach with fluoroscopy.

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ABG Versus VBG in the Emergency Department

EMDocs

Authors: Rachel Kelly, MD ( EM Resident Physician, Stony Brook University Hospital); Robert Nocito, MD (EM Attending Physician, Stony Brook University Hospital) // Reviewed by: Jessica Pelletier, DO (EM Education Fellow, Washington University in St.

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REBEL Core Cast 122.0 – Neutropenic Fever

RebelEM

Epub 2011 Apr 22 Coyne CJ, Le V, Brennan JJ, Castillo EM, Shatsky RA, Ferran K, Brodine S, Vilke GM. Coding for Mucositis. Rezaie, MD (Twitter/X: @srrezaie ) The post REBEL Core Cast 122.0 – Neutropenic Fever appeared first on REBEL EM - Emergency Medicine Blog. British Journal of Haematology. 2011 Jun;153(6):773-9.