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Chest Pain - Diagnosis and Workup Algorithm

History and Exam
Acute life-threatening causes:
 • Acute myocardial infarction
 •
Chest Pain - Diagnosis ... life-threatening causes ... Pulmonary embolism • Cardiac ... tamponade • Esophageal ... Serial troponin; HEART
Life Threatening Causes of Chest Pain - Differential Diagnosis Table

 • ACS
 • Aortic Dissection
 •
Life Threatening Causes ... of Chest Pain - ... Differential Diagnosis ... Pneumothorax • Cardiac ... Tamponade • Esophageal
Dyspnea - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Cardiovascular Causes of Dyspnea:
 • Myocardium:
	- Heart failure
	- CAD/ACS
	- Valvulopathy
 • Electrical:
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Dyspnea - Differential ... Myocardium: - Heart ... Constrictive - Tamponade ... of Dyspnea: • Chest ... Obesity - Flail chest
Hypotension - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

Hypotension is commonly due to unnecessarily deep anaesthesia, the autonomic
Breathing • Check chest ... consider: o Cardiac ... tamponade → 3-9 ... #Hypotension #Differential ... #Anesthesiology
Chest Pain / ACS Evaluation Algorithm
Algorithm that attempts to the use history taking (guided by LRs),
Chest Pain / ACS ... score to guide ... physical activity - Nausea ... (+LR 2.6) - Cardiac ... score: - History
Approach to the Hypotensive Patient - Differential Diagnosis Framework for Hypotension

Blood Pressure = Heart Rate x
Hypotensive Patient - Differential ... Blood Pressure = Heart ... Bradycardia (inadequate cardiac ... • Pericardial tamponade ... #diagnosis #causes
Causes of Chronic Dyspnea - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Pericardial
 • Effusion
 • Cardiac Tamponade*
 • Constriction
Myocardial
 •
Causes of Chronic ... Dyspnea - Differential ... • Effusion • Cardiac ... Tamponade* • ... Chest Wall Abnormalities
Cardiac Arrest - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

The probable cause is one or more of: something
Cardiac Arrest - ... • Call for cardiac ... Hypothermia Tamponade ... CardiacArrest #Checklist #Differential ... #Anesthesiology
Pulse Abnormalities - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Unequal/DeIayed:
 • Obstructive arterial disease (ie. Atherosclerosis)
 • Aortic dissection
 •
Abnormalities - Differential ... beats: • Left heart ... pressure >10mmHg: • Cardiac ... tamponade • AECOPD ... Diagnosis #Algorithm #causes
Shock - Differential Diagnosis Framework
MAP = CO x SVR
Hypovolemic (↓ Intravascular volume):
 • Hemorrhage, dehydration due
Shock - Differential ... failure): • Severe heart ... tamponade, Vascular ... findings based on cause ... uw_IMresidency #Shock #Differential