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Diagnostics: Intractable Hiccups

Taming the SRU

Prolonged hiccups can also cause a myriad of negative health consequences including sleep deprivation, exhaustion, malnutrition, dehydration, and depression. The most common lesion in those with intractable hiccups attributed to stroke is the lateral medulla.

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emDOCs Podcast – Episode 100: Acute Chest Syndrome Part 1

EMDocs

Other causes of sickling: acidosis, dehydration, inflammation, infection, fever, and blood stasis Sickling leads to vascular occlusion, end-organ ischemia, and decreased RBC lifespan, which, in turn, leads to pain crisis, acute anemia, sequestration, infection, and acute chest syndrome (ACS.) ECG: Evaluate for ischemia, right heart strain.

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Nausea and Vomiting. This ECG is loaded with information.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

He is worried that he may be dehydrated. In accordance with the last case (in which the patient presented only with vomiting and diarrhea), an ECG was recorded : (Figure 1) Someone thought this was slow VT with a "northwest" axis (towards aVR, or -135 degrees), but there are definite P-waves (with a long PR interval).

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What is strange about this paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in an otherwise healthy patient? And what happened after giving ibutilide?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Here is her EKG: What is unusual about this? Here is the ECG after ibutilide: What do you notice? Here is the post-cardioversion ECG: Sinus rhythm, still with the longer QT interval. For more on SSS — See My Comment at the bottom of the page in the July 5, 2018 post in Dr. Smith’s ECG Blog. She was on no medications.

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emDOCs Podcast – Episode 101: Acute Chest Syndrome Part 2

EMDocs

Other causes of sickling: acidosis, dehydration, inflammation, infection, fever, and blood stasis. ECG: Evaluate for ischemia, right heart strain. Fluid management Goal is euvolemia Dehydration – needs IV fluid resuscitation. HbS has reduced solubility in the setting of hypoxia, leading to sickling of the RBCs.

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A 60-something with Syncope, LVH, and convex ST Elevation

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Note 2 other similar cases at the bottom that come from my book, The ECG in Acute MI. Case While I was busy seeing patients, a resident brought me this ECG of a 60-something with a history of syncope only. There was no chest pain or SOB at the tim of the ECG: Computerized QTc is 464 ms A previous ECG from 8 years prior was normal.

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Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD)

Mind The Bleep

environmental factors, pain, infection, dehydration, electrolyte disturbance, head injury, medication etc) Does the individual have capacity? It is important to complete an ECG prior to initiating pharmacological therapy as drugs, such as antipsychotics can prolong the QT interval, increasing the risk of arrhythmias.