Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

Tachycardia is unusual for OMI, unless the patient is in cardiogenic shock (or getting close). A bedside ultrasound should be done to assess volume and other etiologies of tachycardia, but if no cause of type 2 MI is found, the cath lab should be activated NOW. We can see enough to make out that the rhythm is sinus tachycardia.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

While Point of Care Ultrasound has made limited entry in prehospital care, largely with physician-led services and some Advanced Paramedics; it has largely been as a proof of concept rather than everyday care. An elderly lady in cardiogenic shock (BP 60/40) with no veins , I was lucky to get a 24-gauge PIV into the back of her wrist.

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Emergency Nursing Seizures CPR Wellness 40

Don't Forget the Bubbles

JULY 5, 2023

Symptoms may be non-specific in the beginning with patients quickly developing septic shock and disseminated intravascular coagulation. Do not use pethidine since it can cause seizures and CNS hyperexcitability. The high blood flow velocities through these stenotic segments can be detected using transcranial doppler ultrasound (TCD).

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This is sometimes misidentified as seizures. or somebody who appears pale, dehydrated, in severe pain, or worse, even in shock. Now, ultrasound is useful if you suspect gallbladder disease, but the patient needs to be NPO for six to eight hours before the procedure. The red flag symptoms, as expected, are similar to GERD.

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Pediatrics Emergency Department Ultrasounds Wellness 52

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

JUNE 1, 2017

The infant in shock after a ‘cold’: myocarditis Beware of the poor feeding, tachycardic, ill appearing infant who “has a cold” because everyone else around him has a ‘cold’. Cardiovasculr Ultrasound. Viral myocarditis Presenting with Seizure and Electrocardiographic Findings of Acute Myocardial Infarction in a 14-Month-Old Child.

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Pediatrics EKG/ECG Wellness Seizures 52

Critical Care Now

JUNE 21, 2022

His main areas of interest are Critical Care, Ultrasound, Prehospital Resuscitation, and Medical Education. His coach and fellow players witnessed a seizure-like activity immediately after collapsing. Paramedics continued chest compressions, gave epinephrine via an intraosseous route, and delivered one shock.

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Seizures EKG/ECG CPR Shock 52

EB Medicine

AUGUST 1, 2018

It was peer-reviewed by Joseph Habboushe, assistant professor at NYU and Nadia Maria Shaukat, director of the emergency and critical care ultrasound at Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. Jeff: There are a shocking 22 million past-month users of marijuana in the US, followed by pain relievers at 3.8 million, and cocaine at 1.9

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2019

A bedside cardiac ultrasound revealed grossly normal to hyperdynamic systolic function with no obvious areas of wall motion abnormalities. Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator ), with long-term potential for device-related complications from the ICD, including inappropriate shocks?

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EKG/ECG Hyperthermia / Hypothermia Seizures Documentation/Coding 52

EMDocs

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

However, IgE-mediated or not, anaphylactic shock is possible in either case. Semin Ultrasound CT MR 2017, 38 (4), 345-356. CTA head/neck is absolutely indicated if suspicion is high for this condition. 46 All of these states are some gradation of consciousness impairment. DOI: 10.1161/strokeaha.118.023173 118.023173 From NLM. (4)

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