Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

The patient was tremulous and severely hypoglycemic by point-of-care testing. Here is the Queen's interpretation, with Explainability: She has high confidence The clinicians taking care of the patient did appreciate the inferior STE, but noted that it was less than 1 mm. It was not worse with exertion or relieved by rest.

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EKG/ECG Wellness Point-of-Care Testing Shock 65

Taming the SRU

AUGUST 30, 2023

As the name would suggest, inflammatory markers are biological markers of, well, inflammation. The authors recommended against the use of biomarkers or clinical symptoms stand-alone tests to diagnose bacterial pneumonia given the poor test characteristics. The American journal of gastroenterology. 2015;110(6):802-819.

Infectious Diseases 87

Infectious Diseases Sepsis Emergency Department Point-of-Care Testing 87

EB Medicine

JANUARY 2, 2019

Jeff: Great starting point since there is certainly a lot of debate about the discriminatory zone. So to get us all on the same page, the discriminatory zone is the b-HCG at which an IUP is expected to be seen on ultrasound. A 2010 Meta-Analysis found a NPV of 99.96% when an er doc identified an IUP on bedside ultrasound.

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Ultrasounds Radiology Radiology Infectious Diseases 40