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ECG Blog #365 — A 30yo with Pericarditis.

Ken Grauer, MD

See ECG Blog #215 — for more on the Cabrera format. = For more on “My Take” regarding the ECG entity of Repolarization Variants — Please check out My Comment at the bottom of the page in the May 23, 2022 post in Dr. Smith’s ECG Blog. Inflammatory markers tend to be nonspecific. In contrast, the standard U.S.

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Corticosteroids in Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia: Could CAPE COD catalyze a change in critical care management?

RebelEM

Corticosteroids have excellent anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects that could mitigate some of the inflammation caused by pneumonia. The search for pathogens was left to the discretion of the medical team, introducing variability in the diagnostic process. appeared first on REBEL EM - Emergency Medicine Blog.

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Hip Pain in Pediatrics

Northwestern EM Blog

Management includes imaging studies, typical ultrasound to assess for a joint effusion, then a diagnostic arthrocentesis & antibiotics. A randomized clinical trial: should the child with transient synovitis of the hip be treated with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs? J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1987;69(2):238-242. Ann Emerg Med.

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Extreme shock and cardiac arrest in COVID patient

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Clin Chem [Internet] 2020;Available from: [link] Smith mini-review: Troponin in Emergency Department COVID patients Cardiac Troponin (cTn) is a nonspecific marker of myocardial injury. Higher troponin correlated with more history of heart failure, diabetes, and hypertension, as well as higher D-dimer, and nearly all inflammatory markers.

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