Chest Pain Assessment

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1h 30m
Updated 27 Feb 2024 Certificate ANCC Accredited

This Ausmed Course provides a best-practice, step-by-step guide to conducting a chest pain assessment: from question-taking strategies, all the way through to treatment options for common differential diagnoses. The content of this course is geared towards audiences working in prehospital and emergency department settings.

Content

8 Video Units • 15 Questions
Pre-reflection
1 Question
Introduction
4m
Pretest
3 Questions
Chest Pain Overview
2 Questions
11m
Signs and Symptoms
2 Questions
16m
Diagnostic Assessment
2 Questions
14m
Differential Diagnosis
2 Questions
10m
Management of Cardiac Pain
1 Question
11m
Management of Non-Cardiac Pain
1 Question
7m
Conclusion
4m
Post-reflection
1 Question

What you'll learn:

1

Explain the critical role of chest pain assessments in practice.

2

Differentiate between the various types of chest pain and their indicated causes.

3

Understand how to conduct a safe, efficient and thorough chest pain assessment.

4

Identify and understand key presentations of chest pain and their degree of urgency.

5

Confidently apply best-practice management strategies in events of either cardiac or non-cardiac chest pain.

Who it's for:

This Ausmed Course is intended for paramedics, nurses and those looking to increase or update their knowledge about the assessment of a patient presenting with chest pain.

Why it's needed:

Every year, over 500,000 people present to emergency departments in Australia with signs and symptoms indicative of a possible heart attack. Though over 80% of these people presenting with chest pain are ultimately not experiencing acute coronary syndromes (ACS), a thorough chest pain assessment is necessary in all of these cases.

With this in mind, education providing an up-to-date and optimised approach to conducting chest pain assessments is essential in order to combat the considerable time and resources these assessments take within our already strained healthcare system.

Purpose:

The purpose of this Ausmed Course is to update learners’ knowledge of best-practice care of a person experiencing chest pain, help learners recognise the difference between chest pain of a cardiac nature and of other causes, and inform learners of current best-practice management options for the different origins of chest pain.

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Last updated27 Feb 2024

Published28 Jan 2023

Due for review27 Feb 2025
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