How to evaluate the chest pain in emergency medicine

"Who's your DADDY" is a system to assist in the evaluation of each patient with chest pain. Whether it's chest pain, pressure, shortness of breath, nausea, or cough, you have to ask, "who's your DADDY?". You need to look at them, on them and say, "who's your DADDY?Mnemonic PAPPA is intended for high risk causes of chest pain, which can cause fatal outcome. So it is risky, not miss the causes of chest pain.

If we play the prospects, we žalujete our attention towards acute coronary syndrome. Even if it is not an acute coronary syndrome, it is still possible deadly diagnosis. Believe me when I say that you don't want to come to work and someone said, "Hey, remember that the patient have you seen the other day ... because these interviews never ends positively, it's not about to send you a message, thank you. Usually, the patient was admitted to another hospital with something wrong, or returned with something bad or die!

I developed a symbol of "DADDY" to identify the major causes of chest pain. The first two, "PP" or "DADDY" to do with the heart. The other two, "PP," to do with the lungs. And the last "and" is an aneurysm.

P is the pericarditis, acute coronary syndrome and the like (or acute myocardial infarction), P is the pneumo p is a pulmonary embolism and is an aneurysm.

In the evaluation of a patient with chest pain, there are two key points: you need a system of patient assessment, as well as a system of objective evaluation: EKG/ECG and cardiac enzymes.

You must be a masterly interpretation of ECG/EKG 12 lead. You are able to equip the causes of the ST segment, which can mimic the os of the acute myocardial infarction? Cannot stress this enough, and if you slept through this article, you need to wake up for the following points: the chest pain is risky. You need the system, use 100% of the time of the patient, which is a chest symptoms. It must be reproducible and easy to use. Ask: "who's your DADDY." It works, I swear it. Then you must be strong in the evaluation of the 12 lead EKG/ECG. There are no more law suits and then missed myocardial infarction. 25% should be omitted from the miss reading infarctions EKG/ECGs. EKG/ECG sharpen you skills!