Remember the causes of Acute Chest Pain using the mnemonic CHEST MAPPED.
CHEST MAPPPED
- Cardiac anoxia (ie, ischemia or infarction)
- Hematological (e.g., sickle cell chest crisis)
- Esophagus (ie, spasm, esophagitis, rupture)
- Spinal (ie, nerve root damage, spinal column disease)
- Trachea or bronchus
- Mediastinum: infection or mediastinal emphysema
- Aorta: Dissection or aneurysm
- Parietal surfaces (ie, pleural, pericardial, diaphragm)
- Pulmonary embolus, Pneumonia
- Extra-thoracic organs (eg, stomach, gallbladder, liver,
- pancreas)
- Diseases of viral origin (eg, epidemic pleurodynia, herpes
- Zoster, costochondritis)
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