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>To: Jacob galpert <[log in to unmask]>
>From: [log in to unmask]
>Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 20:00:31 00100
>>Hi
>>Do any departments routinely do cardiac monitoring on patients with suspected
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>>cardiac contusion?
>>If yes how long for and what do you usually find?
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>Had a 65 yr old with # sternum (RTA) last week go into AF for the first time
>on our ward.(Normal ECG on arrival). Was on ward for analgesia not on a monitor,
picked up by nurses
>on 'routine' obs of pulse rate!
>So until then would have said No I don't!! However makes you think doesn't
it
>
>Peter Cutting
>SpR Emergency Medicine
>Preston
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