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Chest Pain in the Emergency Department: Diagnostic Pathways

…jaw, upper back, abdomen, or epigastrium. Dyspnoea, nausea, vomiting, diaphoresis, fatigue, faintness, and other symptoms may occur without chest pain and should be considered anginal…

Differential Diagnosis of Chest Pain: A Clinical Overview

…syndrome associated with ischemic heart disease is broader than chest pain itself, encompassing symptoms like tightness, pressure, and discomfort in the chest, arms, neck, jaw…

Approach to patients with chest pain: differential diagnoses, management & ECG

…respiration? Ischemic chest pain is usually described as pressure, squeezing, or a crushing sensation across the precordium and may radiate to the neck, shoulder, jaw…

Reduction of dislocations

…gravity and slow movement; those that fail usually do so because the patient tenses up with pain, or because the operator pulls harder rather than…

Acute Coronary Syndrome: Definitions and Initial Triage

…Clinical presentation and symptoms Clinical presentation is heterogeneous. Patients may have: Chest pain, pressure, tightness, heaviness, or discomfort. Pain radiating to the neck, jaw, shoulders…

Chronic Coronary Syndrome: Diagnosis and Initial Evaluation

…or cardiometabolic origin. Major clinical presentations The principal outpatient presentations include: Reproducible stress induced angina or ischaemia associated with obstructive epicardial coronary disease. Angina or…

ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock

…may occur. Pain usually involves the central chest or epigastrium, may radiate to the arms, and less often to the abdomen, back, lower jaw, neck…

ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Diagnosis and Electrocardiographic Criteria

…back, lower jaw, and neck. The pain may radiate as high as the occipital area but does not radiate below the umbilicus. It is often…

ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Diagnosis and ECG Criteria

…lower jaw. Discomfort may extend superiorly as far as the occipital region but typically does not radiate below the umbilicus. Epigastric or subxiphoid pain may…

Advanced cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) - Advanced cardiovascular life support (ACLS)

…Adrenaline (epinephrine) ACLS 112 Perkins et al Advanced airway ACLS Unclear benefit Panchal et al Tracheal intubation vs bag mask ventilation ACLS Unclear benefit Jabre…

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