Nick Mark, MD Nov 19, 2022

Here’s a fun ICU puzzle: what is causing this crazy spiking pattern on the ECG waveform of both an intra-aortic balloon pump & ICU monitor?

A #MedEd 🧵 on an important clinical artifact, medical pumps, & the triboelectric effect.

We’ll need to go back 2500 years to understand the cool physics behind this important effect! #FOAMed #FOAMcc #PhysicsInTheICU

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Show threadOphir Ronen

@nick I have inside information but could it be.... STATIC ELECTRICITY? :)

This is a wonderful example as
to the importance of getting all the signals into one place so that you can capture x-system influence/anomalies #allthedata

Nov 21, 2022 at 9:11pmWeb