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A Relatively Narrow Complex Tachycardia at a Rate of 180.

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I also believe that we physicians and medics are eager to treat dysrhythmias, and we want to see them even when they are not there. We believe more research is needed in this area, as amphetamine derivatives are one of the most widely abused drugs worldwide, and we expect this problem to worsen in the future."

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An athletic 30-something woman with acute substernal chest pressure

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Now you have ECG and troponin evidence of ischemia, AND ventricular dysrhythmia, which means this is NOT a stable ACS. She has done quite a bit of research on the topic. (For those of you who are accustomed to the units of high sensitivity troponin (ng/L), this is equivalent to 20,956.00 Again, cath lab was not activated.

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Hyperthermia and ST Elevation

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I remember Allie well from her days in the Research volunteer program at Hennepin. This was submitted by Alexandra Schick. Dr. Schick is a PGY3 at the Brown Emergency Medicine Residency in Rhode Island. The article is edited by Smith. Title: Is it just hot in here or is it a OMI?

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Emergency Department Syncope Workup: After H and P, ECG is the Only Test Required for Every Patient.

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Dysrhythmia, pacer), 4) valvular heart disease, 5) FHx sudden death, 6) volume depletion, 7) persistent abnormal vitals, 8) primary CNS event __ 3) Mendu ML et al. Yield of Diagnostic Tests in Evaluating Syncopal Episodes in Older Patients Arch Intern Med 2009 Jul 27; 169:1299-1305. Sivilotti 3 , Brian H. Rowe 4 , Robert Sheldon 5 , George A.

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Chung-Ang University Study Looks at Cardiovascular Risks in COVID-19 Survivors

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Researchers analyze primary and secondary cardiovascular outcomes in 132,784 inpatients with COVID-19 (October 8, 2020 to September 30, 2021) and 31,173 inpatients with non-COVID-19 pneumonia (January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019) in Korea. The results indicate a lower risk of cardiovascular disease in COVID-19 patients.

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