Episode 119.0 – Journal Update
This week we review 4 articles discussed in our conference in the last month.
Show Notes
Take Home Points
- Tachycardia in peds patients at discharge was associated with more revisits but not with more critical interventions. If your workup is reassuring, isolated tachycardia in and of itself shouldn’t change your disposition.
- Supplemental O2 is not necessary in the management of AMI patients with an O2 sat > 90% and, may be harmful
- Until further study and prospective validation has been performed, we’re not going to recommend embracing the Canadian decision instrument on predicting dysrhythmias after a syncopal event.
- Finally, our agreement on what cardiac standstill is isn’t great. We need a unified definition going forward to teach our trainees and for the purposes of research.
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