
Ep 166 Pericarditis and Cardiac Tamponade
Emergency Medicine Cases
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Pericroditis - What's the Most Useful Marker?
The most useful marker that i find myself? It's the c r p. Cepo ause that's the first one that's going to go up. And any inflammatory sease, c r p goes up right away. So from litture i've looked at, it's as sensitivety overall of a c r p elevation pericoditus. C r p mordn three is about 80 %. White count, unhelpful, in my opinion. E s r, unhelpfully, in his opinion. But a high c r p, rapid heart rate, good story, maybe a rabbishing heroine, typical. If with a dramatic troponan elevation,
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