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Chest Pain Red Flags: What to Rule Out First

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Key takeaways

  • Start by asking which causes can kill this patient in the next hour, not which diagnosis is most common.
  • Use ECG, haemodynamics, oxygenation, and trajectory to split cardiac, vascular, and respiratory emergencies fast.
  • If the physiology is unstable, escalate before the differential is tidy.

Linked topics

Chest pain symptom page

Symptom-led red flags and next pages.

Acute coronary syndrome

ACS pathway, troponin framing, and urgent management.

Pulmonary embolism

PE risk, diagnostics, and treatment priorities.

Aortic dissection

Recognize the classic catastrophic miss.