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www.gitfreed.a.i. Hey everyone, what's going on? This is Mike Estefan from the University of

Rochester School of Medicine, bringing you episode nine in the Emergency Medicine shelf exam review series.

This week's episode is going to be focused on cardiopulmonary emergencies.

A lot of what I'm going to be covering in this episode is considered to be the bread and

butter of emergency medicine. Most of you probably have the clinical presentation for many

of these diseases drilled into your head from your clerkship.

For example, pulmonary embolism, myocardial infarction, aortic dissection, etc.

So I'm mostly going to be focusing on ways that the exam will try to trick you with these questions.

I'm not really going to be focusing on the disease presentations.

And just a heads up guys, I'm currently getting over a viral pharyngitis, so if my voice

sounds a little different or softer than the previous weeks, that's why.

Alright, let's start off with pulmonary embolism.

So for pulmonary embolism, the exam typically won't make you calculate a well

score or figure out if you can perk rule them out or whatever. Instead, usually it'll give you a

vignette with a disease presentation that is obvious for a pulmonary embolism, and then it will

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