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Chest Pain

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HEART Score for Chest PainAssesses the short-term risk of Major Adverse Cardiac Event (MACE) in next 6 weeks in patients presenting with chest pain, guiding decisions about admission, further testing, or early discharge PERC Rule for PEStops the PE workup before it starts — but only in a patient you have ALREADY judged low-risk.Revised Geneva Score for PEPretest probability for PE with no gestalt criterion — every item is objective, which is exactly its advantage and its cost.Sgarbossa Criteria for MI in LBBBFinds the STEMI hiding inside a left bundle branch block — positive rules in hard, negative rules out nothing.sPESI (Simplified Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index)The PE is already confirmed — this asks whether the patient can go home on anticoagulation.Wells Score for PEThe most-used PE pretest probability score — and the gate every other PE tool is built on top of.YEARS Algorithm for Pulmonary EmbolismRules out pulmonary embolism using 3 clinical items to set the D-dimer threshold — no Wells score required, and fewer CTPAs.

Other complaints

Shortness of Breath Abdominal Pain Headache Altered Mental Status Fever & Infection Sepsis Head Injury Neck & Back Injury Extremity Injury Stroke & Neuro Deficit Leg Swelling Sore Throat GI Bleed Exposure & Prophylaxis Anticoagulation