Approach to patients with chest pain: differential diagnoses, management & ECG
Approach to patients with chest pain: differential diagnoses, evaluation and management Chest pain is one of the most common symptoms in the emergency department, as well as in primary health care. The cause (etiology) of chest pain varies according to age, sex, risk factors, type of symptoms etc. Chest pain is actually one of the most nuanced symptoms in clinical practice and it is fundamental to be able to differentiate benign from serious etiologies. Therefore, when encountering a patient with chest pain the primary task is to exclude or verify the following potentially life-threatening causes of chest pain: Ischemic heart disease : stable angina pectoris , unstable angina pectoris, acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Note that unstable angina pectoris and acute myocardial infarction are categorized under acute coronary syndromes (ACS) . Aortic dissection Pneumothorax Pulmonary embolism Mediastinitis (rare condition) In addition to these five conditions, there are numerous other causes of che…
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