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SGEM#344: We Will…We Will Cath You – But should We After An OHCA Without ST Elevations?

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Kaushal Khambhati is also a fourth-year resident training with the Jacobi and Montefiore Emergency Medicine Residency Training Program. She arrives in the emergency department (ED) with decreased level of consciousness and shock. Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is responsible for the majority (60%) of all OHCAs in patients.

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Upon arrival to the emergency department, a senior emergency physician looked at the ECG and said "Nothing too exciting."

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

The fire department, who operate at an EMT level in this municipality, arrived before us and administered 324 mg of baby aspirin to the patient due to concern for ACS. Upon arrival to the emergency department, a senior emergency physician looked at the ECG and said "Nothing too exciting." References: 1.

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Rethinking Fluid Resuscitation in Vaso-Occlusive Crisis: Is Lactated Ringer’s the Superior Choice?

REBEL EM

Paper: Alwang AK, Law AC, Klings ES, Cohen RT, Bosch NA. Reliance on a billing dataset, instead of EMR or prospective data, likely affected the quality of outcome measurement. PMID: 28106307 Alwang AK, Law AC, Klings ES, Cohen RT, Bosch NA. To assess the clinical impact and relevance of these concerns, Alwang et al.

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