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Putting Clinical Gestalt to Work in the Emergency Department

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On a busy day shift in the emergency department, our seasoned triage nurse comes to me after I finish caring for a hallway patient, “Hey, can you come see this guy in the triage room? This is the essence of emergency medicine. The “bundling” heuristic—if I send a troponin, then an ECG is needed. His vitals are fine…”.