ACEP Now

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Regulations Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act focuses on services available to limited-English-proficiency patients and builds on anti-discriminatory precedents set by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JULY 7, 2023

As a result — the finding of a Tall R Wave in Lead V1 ( ie, R=S or R>S in V1 ) should prompt the following diagnostic considerations: i ) WPW; ii ) RBBB; iii ) RVH; iv ) Posterior MI; v ) HCM ( H ypertrophic C ardio M yopathy ) ; and , vi) Normal Variant ( which is a diagnosis of exclusion ! ).

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EKG/ECG 52

Greater Sydney Area HEMS

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The right BCV is preferred as it is more superficial and straight compared to the left BCV which was observed to be deeper and has a more tortuous course [vi]. vi] Xia R, Sun X, Bai X et al. One approach to obtaining BCV origin access (fig.1) October 2023. [vi] Medicine 2018; 97 : e13661.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2022

As a result — the finding of a Tall R Wave in Lead V1 ( ie, R=S or R>S in V1 ) should prompt the following diagnostic considerations: i ) WPW; ii ) RBBB; iii ) RVH; iv ) Posterior MI; v ) HCM ( H ypertrophic C ardio M yopathy ); and , vi ) Normal Variant ( which is a diagnosis of exclusion ! ).

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

These include: i ) Use of rate-slowing medication ( ie, ß-blockers, digoxin, verapamil/diltiazem, etc. ) ; ii ) Acute or recent infarction or ischemia; iii ) Hypothyroidism; iv ) Neurologic injury; v ) Electrolyte disturbance; and , vi ) Sleep apnea.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 11, 2023

The trial demonstrated that screening colonoscopy reduced the risk of future colon cancer but had neither an effect on colon cancer related mortality (a benefit in this endpoint has been shown in other colon cancer screening trials [v] ) nor on overall mortality (which has not been consistently demonstrated [vi] ). 2015;314(15):1599-1614.

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Wellness 59

EMDocs

MARCH 11, 2024

Furthermore, the type VI secretion system of V. Animal studies using probiotics to induce colonization resistance to cholera have proven promising, demonstrating decreased cholera infection mortality in treated mice. 25–27 Owing to the excessive fluid accumulation, V. cholerae elicits severe disruption to the gut microbiome during infection.

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Dehydration CDC Rapid Diagnostic Testing Fluid Resuscitation 87

Mind The Bleep

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Generally, class I-III are severe mutations whereas class IV-VI are associated with some residual function. More than 2000 polymorphisms have been described but those that are associated with clinical manifestations are grouped in to 6 main classes. The most common mutation in the UK (approx.

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Radiology Radiology Research Hospitals 96

Don't Forget the Bubbles

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Using a TILT test they found that that VVS-CI and VVS-M had a 203% and 175% increased likeliness than VVS-VI, respectively. In the European Journal of Pediatrics, Wang and colleagues studied 2513 patients between 3-18 years of age who presented with vasovagal syncope.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

APRIL 8, 2015

Left BBB vi. And these findings come from OESIL , EGSYS , and Sarasin studies: i: Non-sinus rhythm ii: SVT or VT (obviously, and this makes for an abnormal vital sign anyway) iii. 2nd or 3rd degree AV blocks or sinus pause of at least 2 seconds iv. Right bundle branch block (BBB) with hemiblock (bifascicular block) v. Pathologic Q-waves viii.

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