Emergency Medicine: Chest Pain (Audio-Digest Foundation Emergency Medicine Continuing Medical Book 27)

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners physicians and other healthcare professionals with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Emergency Medicine is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information, including, but not limited to, the care of patients presenting to the emergency department in such areas as:

Airway management
Asthma
Bite wounds
Burns
Cardiovascular emergencies
Domestic violence
Drug abuse
Envenomations
Infectious diseases
Ingested foreign bodies
Gastrointestinal emergencies
Psychiatric emergencies
Risk management
Pain management
Poisoning & Toxicology
Resuscitation
Sports injuries
Trauma

Educational Objectives
The goal of this program is to improve the management of chest pain in adults and children. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1. Recognize situations in which the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction or acute coronary syndrome may be missed.
2. Discuss the advantages and limitations of electrocardiography, enzyme levels, and provocative testing in the diagnosis of chest pain.
3. Describe the role of computed tomographic coronary angiography in evaluating patients with chest pain.
4. Review conditions that can cause chest pain in children.
5. Determine when to refer a child with chest pain to a specialist.