A previously healthy young woman presented to the ED with one hour of acute onset right sided chest pain and pressure, very severe, radiating down the right arm.

Here is her initial ED ECG…

In adult patients with non-traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, does a supraglottic airway device compared with tracheal intubation as the initial advanced airway management strategy, improve functional neurological outcome?

One of the tricky things about patients who have chest pain is the huge differential that you have to consider. And some of these are pretty benign, while others can be fatal! But before you even consider the differential, you need to make sure the patient is stable. Start with the following…

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Excluding pulmonary embolism at the bedside without diagnostic imaging: management of patients with suspected pulmonary embolism presenting to the emergency department by using a simple clinical model and d-dimer.