Aortic Dissection
The 6 Life Threatening Causes of Chest Pain
- Acute Myocardial Infarction
- Pulmonary Embolism
- Tension Pneumothorax
- Cardiac Tamponade
- Aortic Dissection
- Oesophageal Rupture
Serious reasons why your patient fainted…
If your patient presents with…
- Symptoms of arm ischemia or paresthesias with syncope – Subclavian steal syndrome
- Chest pain that is acute, radiates, tearing/sharp, involves symptoms above and below diaphragm with syncope – Aortic dissection
- Tachypnea, pleuritic chest pain, shortness of breath with syncope – PE
- Neurologic deficit with syncope – TIA/stroke
- Headache that is sudden in onset, maximal at onset, worst of life with syncope – Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Minor trauma with head or neck pain and syncope – Carotid/vertebral artery dissection
- Abdominal/flank pain in older patient with syncope – Ruptured AAA