Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

This is a re-post of an excellent case from 2021. See it again now, along with our new Queen of Hearts functionality. We've come a long way in 2 years! And the pace only quickens. A man in his mid 60s with history of CAD and stents experienced sudden onset epigastric abdominal pain radiating up into his chest at home, waking him from sleep. He called EMS who brought him to the ED.

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EM Literature of Note

OCTOBER 1, 2023

And, most importantly, if you put the symptoms related to your fever into ChatGPT, it will generate a reasonable differential diagnosis. “So?” This brief report in Annals describes a retrospective experiment in which 30 written case summaries lifted from the electronic documentation system were fed to either clinician teams or ChatGPT. The clinician teams (either an internal medicine or emergency medicine resident, plus a supervising specialist) and ChatGPT were asked to generate a &

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FOAMfrat

OCTOBER 1, 2023

HEY-HEY everyone. It’s been a minute since I wrote a blog so I thought I would drop one on you all about drop factor calculations… (Giggles to self ). We’re going to be discussing all things DROP FACTOR, including tubing and formula calculations! This is your warning. This is a MATH BLOG. Drop factors can be intimidating if we don’t have a good understanding of how med math works or what drop tubing is.

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EMCrit Project

OCTOBER 1, 2023

A slightly different kind of topic was my inspiration for the John Hinds Keynote at SMACC EMCrit Project by Scott Weingart, MD FCCM.

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