Provides Canadian clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis of acute aortic syndrome, a life-threatening emergency.
Clinicians must maintain high suspicion for AAS in acute chest pain; guideline extends evidence synthesis for standardized recognition and care.
KEY POINTS Acute aortic syndrome (AAS) is a life-threatening emergency, accounting for 1/2000 presentations of acute chest or back pain to the emergency department.[1][1] It is a clinical spectrum of diagnoses including aortic dissection, intramural hematoma and penetrating atherosclerotic ulcer at
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