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The Utility of Laboratory Testing in Pediatric Trauma: A Primer
It's late into your shift when a 12 month-old rolls into your trauma bay and have reproducible abdominal pain. Do you go straight to CT? LFTs? UA? Dr. Shan Modi takes us through the literature and utility of laboratory studies and EKGs in pediatric trauma.
Back on the Block - Heart Blocks Part 2
Last week we introduced to you a primer on the interpretation and detection of heart blocks on EKGs. Now you can test out your knowledge with some cases based on the information in the previous post!
Heart Blocks: A Primer
We order and interpret numerous EKG’s during our shifts in the emergency department. EKG interpretation is one of the skills we need to be competent in and comfortable with as an emergency medicine physician. STEMI’s, ischemic changes and arrhythmias are some of the most important findings we focus on, and although straightforward, heart blocks can be easily overlooked. The goal of this post is to go over some of the most common and clinically relevant conduction blocks, how to manage them and what their disposition are.