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Overview. The approach to non-traumatic chest pain requires the early recognition and exclusion of potential life threats, then further consideration of other causes. Causes. Potentially life-threatening causes of chest pain. Cardiovascular. Acute coronary syndromes (STE-ACS and NSTE-ACS) Aortic dissection.
If develops from blunt chest trauma may be able to consider embolisation. FLAIL CHEST. A flail chest is defined as fractures of 2 or more contiguous ribs in 2 or more locations. This results in a segment of the chest wall (the ‘flail’) that is no longer in continuity with the rest of the thoracic cage.
Dec 1, 2021 · This clinical practice guideline for the evaluation and diagnosis of chest pain provides recommendations and algorithms for clinicians to assess and diagnose chest pain in adult patients.
Nov 30, 2021 · The ECG changes associated with acute pulmonary embolism may be seen in any condition that causes acute pulmonary hypertension, including hypoxia causing pulmonary hypoxic vasoconstriction. Right ventricular strain pattern – T wave inversions in the right precordial leads (V1-4) ± the inferior leads (II, III, aVF).
Oct 28, 2021 · Several observational series report that prompt stress echocardiography in the ED for the evaluation of acute chest pain is associated with significantly lower costs, with no adverse sequelae after early discharge. 1,2 In a single-center randomized trial of 400 patients, prompt stress echocardiography was associated with a reduced rate of ...
Chest X-rays is a painless, non-invasive test and is the most commonly preferred diagnostic examination to produce images of heart, lungs, airways, blood vessels and the bones of the spine and chest [1] [2].