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at www.gitfreed.a.i. Hello, med students. My name is Zach Olson, and today we are going to address

one of the core chief complaints. I'm going to give you an approach to chest pain.

You really need to pay attention today. It's really important, guys. In this episode, there is one

thing about chest pain that I need you to understand. If you exclude the GI causes of chest pain,

the most important of those being esophageal rupture,

there are only six remaining cardiopulmonary causes of chest pain that you need to know,

because they are life-threatening.

These are the six can't miss diagnoses.

There's two cardiac causes, acute coronary syndrome and paracarditis.

There's two pulmonary causes, pneumonia and pneumothorax. And then there's two vascular causes,

pulmonary embolism and aortic dissection. And a disclaimer, before we get started, I'm not going to be

going through O PQRST and telling you to get a thorough medical history and listen to the patient's

heart and their lungs. I'm not going to be doing any of that in this episode. We are instead going to be

doing a five-step approach specifically for chest

pain. These are the five specific things for chest pain that you need to do on every chest pain

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