Understanding Chest Pain: Diagnostics and Management Strategies

Show Notes

How to Build a Great Talk

• The Teaching Course Podcast: How to Build a Talk – Part I
• The Teaching Course Podcast: How to Build a Talk – Part II

Chest Pain Workshop

• Core EM: Chief Complaint – Chest Pain
• REBEL EM: Is it time to start using the HEART pathway in the Emergency Department?
• EMCast November 2014: Low Risk Chest Pain
• Backus BE et al. Risk Scores for Patients with Chest Pain: Evaluation in the Emergency Department. Curr Card Rev 2011; 7: 2-8. PMC: 3131711
• Mahler SA et al. The HEART Pathway Randomized Trial Identifying Emergency Department Patients With Acute Chest Pain for Early Discharge. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes March 2015; 8 (2): 195 – 203. PMID: 25737484

The HEART Pathway (Mahler 2015)

Journal Update

• Goldberg H et al. Oral steroids for actue radiculopathy due to a herniated disk – a randomized clinical trial. JAMA 2015; 313(19): 1915-23. PMID: 25988461