Putting Clinical Gestalt to Work in the Emergency Department
ACEP Now
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Our nurse did not study Paul Ekman’s Facial Action Coding System for Action Units to code “fear” in the patient’s face. In such cases, would you wait for a lactate, white blood cell count, bandemia, or other diagnostics to confirm a source of infection before starting antibiotics, fluid resuscitation, and/or pressors?
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