Erythrocyte sedimentation rate/zeta sedimentation rate
Talkers, R.
Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America 4(1): 87-93
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0733-8627 PMID: 3512248 Document Number: 268650
Sedimentation rates are a vital laboratory adjunct to the clinical skills of the emergency physician. A patient with an elevated rate in the emergency department needs further evaluation and appropriate referral. If the test is markedly elevated, there is a 95 per cent chance of an infectious, inflammatory, or neoplastic process as the underlying cause.