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Chest pain

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Ask about the pain: specifically any similarity to previous infarcts on angina attacks a

Why?

  • Pain similar to previous myocardial infarction or angina attacks makes a myocardial infarction more likely a

 

Expiry date: June 2003
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Author   CM   Ball
Reviewer   S   Straus
CAT Writers   CJ   Wotton , CM   Ball , N   Shenker , RS   Phillips