Recognition and Care of Aortic Dissection
EMS crews frequently respond to calls for chest pain where they discover the patient is having an acute myocardial infarction. They may also respond to cerebrovascular accidents where they find the patient suffering acute neurological insult. So what happens when your patient is having chest pain with objective signs of an AMI along with pronounced neurological deficits suggesting an acute stroke? A dissecting aorta can result in a patient having a heart attack, acute heart failure, or cerebrovascular accident as the result of blocked blood flow to the heart and/or brain. 1 Some subjective si...
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