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Chest Pain by Dr. Anshu Gupta Patient Expert

Some gastrointestinal disorders may present as atypical chest pain. This is chest pain not related to the heart. This usually is associated with gastroesophageal reflux (reflux of stomach acids) and esophageal spasm. In addition, ... Read on »

Chest pain by Gertrude Patient Expert

... ient is unable to take deep breath without coughing but is able to speak clearly with no stridor or hoarsness. Patient has inspiratory and expiratory wheezes heard throughout upper and lower front and back. His only complaint is of chest tightness and cough. Ready? Treat my patient. GO! Read on »

Chest pain by Stuart G. Patient Expert

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Six calls – two refused, four by ambulance. Forty kilograms is a lot of weight to drop onto your chest and my first call was to a 57 year-old, in good health and with years of experience ‘pumping iron’ who did just that. He’d been working out, as usual, in his local gym w ... Read on »

Chest pain walking by Stuart G. Patient Expert

Day shift: Ten calls; all by ambulance. Stats: 1 ?fit; 4 Chest pains (one eTOH, so possibly not); 1 RTC with knee injury; 1 Hypothermia; 1 DIB; 1 Seizure with chest pain; 1 faint. Off to the Strand before I had a chance to grab a c ... Read on »

Chest pain 2 by Gertrude Patient Expert

So get the guy in the back of the truck. His EKG looks good. Start him out on an albuterol Neb. By the time that one has finished his chest pressure has lessened, and his cough is still productive but no longer black, it is white. He continues to wheeze only now it is strictly expiratory and there is much be ... Read on »

Chest pain = angiography = bypass surgery by Dr. Aniruddha M. Medical Doctor

... urgery ( coronary artery bypass surgery, CABG, or cabbages as they are fondly called by cardiac surgeons in the US!) It seems to have become a routine that every patient with chest pain is sent to a cardiologist, who does an ECG and finds "suspicious changes"; advises a stress test, which confirms the suspicions, which then inexorably leads to an a ... Read on »

Unexplained chest pain can be due to stress by Niell A. Patient Expert

Posted by Neill Abayon Each year, many people seek emergency treatment for unexplained chest pains. A thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, indicates several common factors among those affected, including stress at work, anxiety, ... Read on »

Women with Chest Pain Not Treated the Same as Men by EMS by Heartstrong Registered Nurse

... hen they have a heart attack. When a woman arrives at a hospital with a heart attack she is not treated as aggressively as a man. This may be because women do not always have chest pain – the cardinal sign of a heart attack.A recent study presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine conference (May 2009) found that even women with chest ... Read on »

Origin and location of chest pain in acute pulmonary embolism by Dr. Sangareddi V. Medical Doctor

Pulmonary embolism is one of the important causes of acute chest pain . It can mimic acute coronary syndrome . In fact along with aortic dissection , it forms a differential diagnosis for STEMI especailly if the ECG is not typical ... Read on »

Call me when you're having chest pain by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

I met a patient, Anna, yesterday. She was quite frustrated and frightened. At age 50, Anna suffered a heart attack and received a stent to her left anterior descending coronary artery. What she found upsetting is that, because several members of her family had suffered heart attacks in their 40s (Dad--heart attack at age 45, paternal uncle--heart ... Read on »