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Chest Pain / ACS Evaluation Algorithm
Algorithm that attempts to the use history taking (guided by LRs),
Chest Pain / ACS ... and the HEART score ... 2.6) - Cardiac risk ... Calculate a HEART score ... findings - Age - Risk
Anticholinergic Cognitive Burden Scale (ACB Scale)
 
Categorical Scoring:
 •	 Possible anticholinergics include those listed with ascore
Burden Scale (ACB ... may increase the risk ... increase in the ACB ... total score has ... increase in the risk
HEART Score – A Tool For the ED The HEART score is an excellent tool that
admission for further workup ... calculating the risk ... identifying low risk ... as well as high ... risk patients,
Chest Pain - Diagnosis and Workup Algorithm

History and Exam
Acute life-threatening causes:
 • Acute myocardial infarction
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Algorithm History ... troponin; HEART score ... • PERC; Well score ... Pain #Diagnosis #Algorithm ... #workup
#Management #CAP #CommunityAcquiredPneumonia #Pneumonia #Risk #Stratification  #Admission #PSI #CURB65 #Algorithm #Score
CommunityAcquiredPneumonia #Pneumonia #Risk ... #PSI #CURB65 #Algorithm ... #Score
Approach to the Hypercoagulable State
Arterial thromboembolism
→ Cardiac rhythm monitoring, Echocardiogram, Vascular imaging
→ Test for APS, particularly
are not a major risk ... - No other workup ... Inherited and APS ... Hypercoagulable #Workup ... hematology #diagnosis #algorithm
Anticoagulation for Atrial Fibrillation - CHA2DS2-VASc

I always tell my students, one of the first thing you
calculate a CHADS-VASc score ... over warfarin as ... least ONE non-sex risk ... least TWO non-sex risk ... CHADSVASC #CHADS2VASC #Score
How should the modified Sgarbossa Criteria be used in initial evaluation of patients with suspected AMI
Validated) - Sgarbossa score ... AcuteCoronarySyndrome #ACS ... LBBB #Evaluation #Algorithm
Cerebral Venous Thrombosis (CVT) - Management Algorithm
Prognostic score for CVT:
Variables: Malignancy 2, Coma 2, Deep venous
) - Management Algorithm ... Prognostic score ... haemorrhage 1 <3: Low risk ... outcome. ≥3: High risk ... Thrombosis #Management #Algorithm
First-line therapies for Asthma, Asthma-COPD Overlap and COPD

The diagnosis of COPD, asthma, and ACO initially requires
COPD, asthma, and ACO ... to respiratory risk ... ACO = asthma-COPD ... overlap; ICS = ... #Differences #Algorithm