Chest pain
Activity
e-Learning Module
e-Learning Module
EM CYOA mandatory module. Chest pain. Mrs Nah is a 55 year old female with a history of smoking and hypertension who is presenting to your emergency department with a 3 hour history of crushing retrosternal chest pain that radiates into her neck and back. She has some shortness of breath. She has no cough or fever, no nausea or vomiting and no abdominal pain. She feels faint.
Curriculum Block
Clerkship / Emergency Medicine Rotation
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
Clerkship Objectives
- Chest pain
- Shortness of breath
- Demonstrate the ability to rapidly recognize and initiate basic management of acute life- or limb-threatening illness or injury
- Describe a basic differential diagnosis including the significant worst-case diagnosis for every patient assessed.
- Demonstrate a basic systematic, prioritized approach to resuscitation and stabilization of emergencies.
- Loss of consciousness (syncope)
Tags
Curriculum Block
Clerkship
Emergency Medicine Rotation
Discipline
Emergency Medicine
General MCC Objectives
Clinical Judgement And Decision-Making
Investigations
MCC Presentations
Blood in Sputum (Hemoptysis)
Chest Pain
Dyspnea
Syncope and Pre-Syncope
McMaster Professional Competency
Clinical Skills
Medical Decision Making
McMaster Program Competencies
2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations.
2.3 Apply principles of clinical sciences to diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making, clinical problem-solving, and other aspects of evidence-based healthcare
MeSH
Chest Pain [C23.888.646.215]
Diagnosis, Differential [E01.171]
