Chest pain
Activity
Clerkship Teaching Session
Clerkship Teaching Session
By the end of the session you should be able to:
Develop a differential diagnosis and choose appropriate initial tests and list early management strategies for: Adult Chest Pain;
Pediatric SOB (shortness of breath) and wheeze.
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
Pediatrics
General MCC Objectives
Clinical Judgement And Decision-Making
Investigations
MCC Presentations
Blood in Sputum (Hemoptysis)
Chest Pain
Cough
Dyspnea
Pediatric Respiratory Distress
Prevention of Venous Thrombosis
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]
Pneumonia [C08.381.677]
Pneumothorax [C08.528.778]
Pulmonary Embolism [C08.381.746]
Sepsis [C01.757]
