Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Her husband called EMS when the patient experienced new onset seizures accompanied by micturition. However, cardiac syncope is always a differential diagnosis when someone presents with first time seizures. There are a number of things to look for in an ECG that can hint at arrhythmia as the cause of an apparent seizure.

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Seizures EKG/ECG EMS Documentation/Coding 106

Taming the SRU

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

to divert the plane).

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Sepsis Administration Fractures Documentation/Coding 93

EB Medicine

AUGUST 1, 2018

Jeff: Medicinally, cannabinoids are currently used in the treatment of chronic pain syndromes, complications of multiple sclerosis and paraplegia, weight loss due to appetite suppression in HIV/aids, chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, seizures, and many other neuropsychiatric disorders. Counsel them on drug abuse also.

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Seizures Hyperthermia / Hypothermia Administration Dehydration 40

Mind The Bleep

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

meningitis), intractable seizures, low GCS, increased risk of aspiration or airway obstruction such as pathological obstruction (e.g. Should also document presence of shunt, size and direction. One of the few exceptions would be if the patient is paralysed, e.g. for an operation. laryngeal oedema.) 2/3 systemic is normal.

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Wellness Seizures Documentation/Coding Operations 52

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

AUGUST 2, 2016

" [Coroners Society] King Richard I (the Lionheart) needed vast sums of money for the Third Crusade, operation of the kingdom, and for his ransom fro m Duke Leopold of Austria. All efforts to identify the decedent by hospital staff, law enforcement agencies or social service agencies should be well documented in the medical records.

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Documentation/Coding Forensics CDC Fractures 40

Don't Forget the Bubbles

JULY 26, 2023

Some families have unexplained deaths during sporting events, an unusual number of car accidents, seizures in someone without a formal diagnosis of epilepsy. The Fontan circulation was an operation initially developed around 50 years ago to treat tricuspid atresia. A 12 year old girl was heard to be coughing in the middle of the night.

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EKG/ECG Hospitals Shock Documentation/Coding 98

Taming the SRU

MAY 30, 2023

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OB/GYN Ultrasounds Pediatrics Resuscitation 52