HAP8: Chest Pain

The trainee will be able to assess the patient with chest pain to produce a valid differential diagnosis, investigate appropriately formulate and implement a management plan.

 
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Lightning Learning: Basic Chest X-rays in Adults
Lightning Learning: Basic Chest X-rays in Adults

This week is a quick visual reminder when remembering the basics of chest x-rays in adults. It’s as simple as DRS-ABDCE!

Lightning Learning: Stable Angina
Lightning Learning: Stable Angina

Angina is pain (or constricting discomfort) in the chest, neck, shoulders, jaw, or arms caused by an insufficient blood supply to the myocardium.

Lightning Learning: Cocaine-induced Chest Pain
Lightning Learning: Cocaine-induced Chest Pain

Cocaine stimulates alpha and beta-adrenergic receptors resulting in increased myocardial oxygen demand and decreased myocardial perfusion – resulting in chest pain.

Lightning Learning: Wellens Syndrome
Lightning Learning: Wellens Syndrome

Wellens Syndrome describes two patterns of deeply inverted or biphasic T-waves in V2 and V3. Over time T-wave changes can evolve from one pattern to the other.

Lightning Learning: SADS
Lightning Learning: SADS

Every week 12 young people in the UK die unexpectedly from a heart condition they didn’t know they had…

#SimBlog: EDU Simulation Day
#SimBlog: EDU Simulation Day

Summary of three SIMs run on our Emergency Decisions Unit

#SimBlog: STEMI with VF Arrest
#SimBlog: STEMI with VF Arrest

56-year-old Caucasian male presented with severe central chest pain.

 

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