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The Concomitant Use of Calcium and Diltiazem for Rapid Atrial Fibrillation

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Article: Rossi N et al. They utilized EMR to gather comprehensive data on patients who received IV calcium and IV diltiazem, or IV diltiazem monotherapy for the treatment of patients with AF/AFL with RVR. The study was dependent on EMR documentation which is prone to error. Am J Emerg Med.

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Calcium in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

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Article by Erin Lincoln, MD Case Scenario: You are dispatched to a 68-year-old male in cardiac arrest. Additionally, low ionized calcium levels have been correlated with increasing mortality in sepsis and other critical illnesses in adults and children (Bora, Ramazan, Oznur, Emre, & Basar, 2021), (Sanchez, et al.,

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

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mm of ST segment elevation, V2 and V3 have 1 mm of elevation, v4 has 2 mm of elevation and v5 around 1.5 In a recent article (J Electrocardiol this year, see reference below), peak trop onin I levels in takotsubo presenting with ST Elevation were median 1.02 Reference on Troponins: Xenogiannis I, Vemmou E, Nikolakopoulos I, et al.