Key result
This review outlines the causes, assessment tools including clinical risk scores and troponin testing, and pain management strategies for paramedics attending to patients with chest pain.
Why the study?
Chest pain is a common medical symptom encountered by paramedics in the out-of-hospital setting, warranting review of assessment, diagnostic tools, and management.
This article provides an educational overview of recognizing, assessing, and managing chest pain for paramedics in the out-of-hospital setting.
May inform paramedic chest pain protocols; leaves open prospective validation of risk scores and troponin use prehospital.
Chest pain is a common medical symptom that paramedics attend to in the out-of-hospital environment. The causes of chest pain and the signs and symptoms are explained in this article, alongside tools that could be useful in diagnosis, such as clinical risk scores and troponin testing. Finally, pain management strategies that use a balanced approach for optimal patient care are referred to, with some specificity for cardiac chest pain explained.
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Maria et al. (2021) conducted a review in Chest pain. Chest pain assessment and management was evaluated. This review outlines the causes, assessment tools including clinical risk scores and troponin testing, and pain management strategies for paramedics attending to patients with chest pain.
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