SGEM#294: Blood Pressure – Do Better, Keep Rising with NorEpi
The Skeptics' Guide to EM
JUNE 6, 2020
You scan through the EMR and see the blood pressure is 60/40. Six hours into your shift, you finish dispo’ing the “really quick sign-out” from the night before. The triage nurse places a 61 year-old-man with fever, hypotension, cough into the smallest room in the ED. It’s uncomfortably low – is it time to start a norepinephrine infusion?
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