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Chest Pain / ACS Evaluation Algorithm
Algorithm that attempts to the use history taking (guided by LRs),
Ask about: - Changes ... physical activity - Nausea ... SatyaPatelMD #ChestPain ... #diagnosis #Algorithm ... #cardiology #Angina
Chest Pain - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Cardiovascular Causes of Chest Pain:
 • Myocardium:
	- Myocarditis
	- CAD/ACS
	- Valvulopathy
	- Myopericarditis
- Differential Diagnosis ... Myocarditis - CAD/ACS ... - Tamponade Pulmonary ... #Chest #Pain #ChestPain ... #Causes #Cardiology
HEART Score – A Tool For the ED The HEART score is an excellent tool that
Coronary Syndrome (ACS ... the ED to help focus ... heart-score-major-cardiac-events #Diagnosis ... #Management #Cardiology ... Stratification #ChestPain
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
murmur 3/6) - Pulmonary ... dependent DM ACS ... event, follow ACC ... indication of AC ... stratification #diagnosis
In order to better classify heart failure, the American College of Cardiology Foundation and the American
direction using risk ... through D of the ACC ... But now the ACC/ ... patients with a diagnosis ... #Diagnosis #Cardiology
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy - Summary
1. Definition
 • Towards the end of pregnancy to 5 months postpartum
exclude other causes ... Differential Diagnosis ... cardiomyopathy • Pulmonary ... Cardiomyopathy #diagnosis ... #management #cardiology
Causes of Lactate Elevation, Lactic Acidosis - Differential Diagnosis

The most common causes of hyperlactatemia are usually:
- Differential Diagnosis ... excretion (e.g., urine ... / hypoxemia -> focus ... laboratory or diagnostic ... output - Acute pulmonary
Ventricular Fibrillation on POCUS Echocardiogram - Subcostal 4 Chamber

50's male witnessed arrest. Unknown hx. AED no
Diagnosis? ... in this case. ... PSSA from case- ... Fibrillation #VFib #S4C ... #ultrasound #Cardiology
Cryptococcal meningitis on T2 MRI
30 M from sub-Saharan Africa presents w/ progressive Headache x1 mo, +neck
Diagnosis? ... of prior silent pulmonary ... Nausea & vomiting ... of K+ & Mg in urine ... Brain #clinical #radiology