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When a woman came to the ED at Christiana Care Health System in Wilmington, DE, complaining of nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, she was initially triaged as low acuity. "But when the ED nurse saw how uncomfortable the patient was, she decided to do an EKG on her," says Kelly Powers, RN, an ED nurse at the hospital.

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