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 Stroke 116

Taming the SRU

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

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Sepsis Fractures Documentation/Coding Administration 94

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 Resuscitation Pediatrics 52

Don't Forget the Bubbles

JULY 5, 2023

Afro-Caribbean patients should be screened for sickle cell before anaesthesia for possible pre-operative transfusion. Do not use pethidine since it can cause seizures and CNS hyperexcitability. In these cases, repeat the Hb electrophoresis three months after the last blood transfusion. What could be the differential diagnosis?

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Blood Transfusions Stroke Dehydration Sepsis 126

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

JUNE 1, 2017

The best documented cormorbidity is sickle cell disease, although other pro-thrombotic conditions also put the child at risk. The child with seizure disorder and chest pain: anti-epileptics Some anti-epileptic agents, such as carbamazepine, promote a poor lipid profile, leading to atherosclerosis and early MI. Congenit Heart Dis.

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Pediatrics EKG/ECG Wellness Seizures 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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