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Chest pain - Better Health Channel
If in doubt about the cause of your chest pain, call an ambulance.
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Chest pain in children and teenagers | Raising Children Network
It’s quite common for children and teenagers to get chest pain. Mostly it’s nothing to worry about and is rarely caused by anything serious.
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Chest pain in children (non-cardiac) | Children's Health Queensland
Chest pain is very common in children and teenagers, but for most children, the pain is not related to the heart and is not life-threatening.
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Pericarditis - Better Health Channel
Pericarditis symptoms may be similar to those of heart attack and include chest pain and abnormal heart rhythms.
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Familial Mediterranean fever: kids & teens | Raising Children Network
Familial Mediterranean fever is a rare autoinflammatory disorder. Symptoms include recurrent fever, abdominal pain, chest pain, joint pain and rash.
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Pneumonia | Lung Foundation Australia
Pneumonia can affect anyone. Symptoms of pneumonia, like chest pain, cough, fatigue and difficulty breathing, can require hospitalisation.
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Pleurisy: what you need to know - myDr.com.au
Pleurisy is inflammation of the pleura, the 2-layer protective membrane around the lungs. Chest pain is the most common symptom.
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Angina
Angina is chest pain or discomfort caused by insufficient blood flow and oxygen to the muscle of the heart.
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Familial Mediterranean fever (children) — Arthritis Australia
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a disease that results in episodes of fever, abdominal pain, chest pain, joint pain and rashes
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What is angina? | Heart Foundation
Angina is a type of chest pain or discomfort that’s a symptom of an underlying heart problem, usually coronary heart disease (CHD).
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Chest Pain Assessment: When Your Patient Has Chest Pain
One of the most important skills available to the healthcare worker in this situation is the ability to perform an accurate pain assessment. This is particularly the case when a patient is experiencing chest pain, as it will help to determine whether the pain is cardiac in nature.
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Diagnosis and management of acute coronary syndromes - Australian Prescriber
The development of high-sensitivity assays has changed thinking about acute coronary syndromes.
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Heart Murmur? Listening For Heart Sounds | Ausmed
If you take the time to listen to them, heart sounds can actually tell you a great deal about a patient. Instead of settling for good old “lub-dub,” put that stethoscope to greater use and reacquaint yourself with the sound of the heart.
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Breathing and Coughing Exercises in Hospital | Ausmed
Hospitalised patients with respiratory conditions, particularly those who have undergone chest or abdominal surgery, should perform breathing and coughing exercises in order to prevent further issues and complications such as pneumonia associated with excess sputum in the lungs.
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Management Plan for Eosinophilic Oesophagitis (EoE) - Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA)
This plan provides guidance about ongoing treatment and management of eosinophilic oesophagitis (EoE), an inflammatory condition of the food tube (oesophagus) that connects the mouth to the stomach. EoE can cause trouble swallowing, chest pain with eating, acid reflux and food impaction/food bolus obstruction (FBO), when food gets stuck and does not go down.
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Lung, Chest and Bowel Sounds Assessment Guide | Ausmed
listening to lung sounds can tell you a great deal about a patient and their relative health. However, knowing the difference between rales, a crackle, and a wheeze is sometimes still a confusing proposition for many health professionals as some of the language is interchangeable.
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Creatine kinase MB (CKMB) | Pathology Tests Explained
CK–MB is one of three forms (or isoenzymes) of the enzyme creatine kinase (CK). CK–MB is found mostly in heart muscle. It rises when there is any damage to h
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Troponin | Pathology Tests Explained
This test measures the level of troponin in your blood. Troponin is a protein found in muscle that helps it contract. There are three different troponins: tr
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Creatine kinase (CK) | Pathology Tests Explained
Creatine kinase (CK) is a chemical known as an enzyme which is found in many tissues of the body and in several forms. When CK is routinely measured in the b
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Coronary artery disease in women
Women are more likely than men to have a myocardial infarction in the absence of coronary artery disease.
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