Chest Pain - An overview
The topics covered in the presentation are as bellow
- Anatomy
- Differential diagnosis of chest pain
- Cardiac causes of chest pain
- Risk factors for cad
- Ischemic chest pain
- Acute myocardial infarction
- Acute inferior mi
- Ecg changes in ischemic heart disease
- Valvular heart disease
- Acute pericarditis
- Tamponade
- Chest wall pain
- Musculoskeletal pain
- Pulmonary causes of chest pain
- Cxr: hampton’s hump and westermark’s sign
- Pneumonia
- Localizing the infiltrate
- Pneumothorax
- Spontaneous
- Asthma
- Vascular causes of chest pain
- Aortic dissection
- Gi causes of chest pain
- Esophageal perforation
- Approach to the patient with chest pain
- Ancillary tests