CES | Chest Pain

Description

Chest Pain or “Ouch my chest!”

Chest pain is a high-risk and concerning presentation.  Knowing how to start the workup, initially manage the pain, and conduct a thoughtful exploration of your differential within your patient’s chart are key elements in this lesson.  Chest pain can have a few insidious, life-threatening causes.  This learning module will attempt to lay the foundation, or build on your current foundation, for successfully working up and dispositioning chest pain presentations.

In this module, you will learn:

• How to initially manage chest pain
• What key elements to include on your workup and evaluation
• How to document your patient’s presentation in a medicolegally sound fashion
• Presentation pearls
• Practice pearls

This module is available as a downloadable PDF with accompanying podcast MP3.

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*Sorry – Clinical education modules do NOT confer any CE/CME at this time.  But, we’re working on that and we’ll let you know when you can start to claim CE/CME for reading and listening to our content.