Acute chest pain... Where?

Abstract

Acute chest pain is a common symptom in emergency medicine. Approaching acute chest pain in emergency departments is a challenge epidemiologically, clinically and organizationally [1]. This symptom requires increased attention from medical professionals, this requiring a primary and careful evaluation for patient, imagining and paraclinical investigations. Attention should also be paid to cardiovascular risk factors (age, high blood pressure, smoking, pre-existing cardiovascular disease, obesity) [2]. In emergency medicine, primary assessment consists of ABCDE evaluation (1. Airway, 2. Breathing, 3. Circulation, 4. Disability, 5. Exposure) [3].