Miscellaneous
Join Drs. Serven and Blackwell from the EMGuidewire team (from the Carolinas Medical Center Emergency Medicine Residency) as they discuss some of the Basic strategies to the initial evaluation and management of a patient with significant Bradycardia. See website (www.emguidewire.com) for complete show notes... but here is a sneak peak: Quick Differential: DIMES D – drugs (digoxin, CCB, beta blockers, cholinergic drugs, TCAs, Clonidine) I – ischemia (heart and brain)/ infection (sepsis, Lyme disease) M – metabolic (hypothyroid, hypoglycemia, hypothermia) E – electrolytes (hyperkalemia, hypokalemia, hypercalcemia, hypocalcemia, hypermagnesemia) S – sinus dysfunction (SSS, AV block)