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Originally published at JournalFeed, a site that provides daily or weekly literature updates.
#1: The Real K-Pop? Raising Potassium Lowers VF/VT Risk
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In patients with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) at risk for ventricular arrhythmias, keeping potassium in the high-normal range (4.5-5.0 mmol/L) reduced shocks, arrhythmia hospitalizations, and deaths, without added harm.
#2: New PECARN Rules for Febrile Infants 61-90 Days
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PECARN derived and internally validated two prediction rules to identify infants 61–90 days at low risk for invasive bacterial infection (IBI): one with urinalysis (UA) + Tmax ≤ 38.9°C; another with procalcitonin (PCT) ≤ 0.24 ng/mL + absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≤ 10,710.
