EmergencyPedia - Posted on March 20, 2016 - By Andrew Coggins
"When a patient presents to the Emergency Department (ED) the priority is to consider ‘life-threatening’ conditions. Chest pain is given a high triage ‘urgency’ because Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS), Pulmonary Embolism and Aortic Dissection can all present with chest pain and are time-dependent life-threatening diagnoses."
Examples of ‘MI Equivalents’
Macias et al summarise the ECG changes to look for as follows:
