November 21, 2024

I walked into one of my first patients’ rooms last the other night, and saw this 3 Lead strip sitting on the counter:

It was for a different patient.

Took me a minute to recover, though…

4 thoughts on “Caffeine? Who needs caffeine?

  1. That EKG has all the look of pre-morbid hyperkalemia… typical “M” sign and all. Be interesting to know what the number was…

    Still, this tracing is also a good example of our exceptional monitors that have an 85% false positive alarm rate. Asystole? No.

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