Chest Pain: Advanced Assessment and Management
promotes a systematic approach to the assessment and management of
patients presenting with chest pain and related undifferentiated
symptoms. Specifically, it equips practitioners with the knowledge
and clinical skills needed to effectively differentiate and respond
to clinical presentations where the primary symptom for seeking
healthcare advice involves chest pain.
Introductory chapters in section one explore the principles of
physical assessment, history taking and differential diagnosis to
provide the framework for subsequent chapters, which explore
cardiac and non-cardiac causes of chest pain.
Section two examines the advanced assessment and overall
management of patients with pain in the chest. A range of clinical
conditions that trigger chest pain and other related symptoms are
covered, including: angina, acute coronary syndromes, pericarditis
and myocarditis, aortic dissection, pulmonary embolism,
oesophago-gastric disorders, musculoskeletal causes, pulmonary and
respiratory causes, coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction,
chest pain caused by trauma or cardiac syndrome X, cocaine misuse
and Herpes zoster.
Tabella dei contenuti
Section 1 Principles of assessment and diagnosis.
Chapter 1: Background to the assessment and management of
patients with chest pain.
Chapter 2: Coronary heart disease healthcare policy and
evolution of chest pain assessment and management in the UK.
Chapter 3: History taking.
Chapter 4: Clinical examination skills for assessing the patient
with chest pain.
Chapter 5: Assessment and differential diagnoses in the patient
with chest pain.
Section 2 Advanced assessment and management of patients
presenting with chest pain.
Chapter 6: Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain
due to an acute coronary syndrome.
Chapter 7: Analysing the presentation of women with chest pain
and other symptoms associated with coronary heart disease and
myocardial infarction.
Chapter 8: Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain
due to either acute pericarditis or myocarditis.
Chapter 9: Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain
due to an aortic dissection.
Chapter 10: Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain
due to pulmonary embolism.
Chapter 11: Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain
due to trauma.
Chapter 12: Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain
due to oesophago-gastric disorders.
Chapter 13: Assessing and managing the patient with
musculoskeletal chest pain.
Chapter 14: Assessing and managing the patient with pulmonary
chest pain.
Chapter 15: Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain
due to cardiac syndrome X, cocaine misuse and herpes zoster
Circa l’autore
John W. Albarran is Principal Lecturer in Critical Care, University of the West of England, and Jenny Tagney is Cardiology Nurse Consultant, United Bristol Healthcare Trust
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