Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

The patient was tremulous and severely hypoglycemic by point-of-care testing. Tachycardia is unusual for OMI, unless the patient is in cardiogenic shock (or getting close). Jenkins and Frick — or additional procedures may be ordered and/or patients shocked for artifact simulating VT/VFib ).

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EKG/ECG Wellness Point-of-Care Testing Shock 64

Taming the SRU

AUGUST 30, 2023

Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care tests in acute community-acquired lower respiratory tract infections. Surviving sepsis campaign: international guidelines for management of sepsis and septic shock 2021. Intensive Care Med. The American journal of gastroenterology. 2015;110(6):802-819. doi:10.1038/ajg.2015.120

Infectious Diseases 88

Infectious Diseases Sepsis Emergency Department Point-of-Care Testing 88

EB Medicine

JANUARY 2, 2019

Interestingly, groups have examined outpatient care with 2 days of daily IM ceftriaxone vs inpatient IV antibiotic therapy and they found that there may be a higher than acceptable risk in the outpatient setting as several required eventual admission and one developed septic shock in their relatively small trial.

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Ultrasounds Radiology Radiology Infectious Diseases 40