Od-014181 Chest Pain- An Emergency Medicine Approach
This course is not active.
Type
On Demand
Credit
No
Description
Chest Pain: An Emergency Medicine Approach
Objectives
- Orientation to emergency medicine decision-making: List the critical diagnoses for chest pain; Discuss the timing of cardiac markers; Formulate the clinical probability of pulmonary embolus in the patient presenting with chest pain; Review of key features of critical ED chest pain diagnoses
- Describe classic presentations: Acute coronary syndrome; Pulmonary embolus; Pneumothorax; Aortic dissection; Pericarditis; Esophageal rupture (Boerhaave syndrome)
- Define the spectrum of ACS
Fees
Free
Activity Director
David Lane
davidlane2005@gmail.com
Organization
MedStar Washington Hospital Center