Chest Pain DSAs Flashcards
If a patient presents with chest pain, what are 2 questions you should be sure to ask?
- Frequency
- Does it wake you up at night
Risk factors for CVD
Age:
___ is a major risk factor
Other: HTN, hyperlipidemia, smoking, sedentary/obestity, family Hx, stress, sleep disturbances
Men over 55 YO; Women over 65 YO
DM
What are the 7 SERIOUS potenially lethal causes of Chest Pain?
- 1. M. ischemia
- 2. MI (acute-AMI); STEMI/NSTEMI
- 3. Aortic dissection
- 4. PE
- 5. Tension pneumothorax
- 6. Esophageal rupture
- 7. Pericarditis (effusion/tamponde)
PE findings associated with CV disease?
S4 gallop is heard _____
S3 gallop is heard _____
- Xanthema in eyes and elbows
- Nicotine stains on fingers, hair, odor
- Bruits (turbulent sounds)
- S4 gallop: angina
- S3 gallop: heart attack
- Mitral regurg, often due to dysfx of papillary muscle
- Diaphoresis
What can mimic angina in the absence of CAD?
1. Aortic insuff/ aortic stenosis/ Pulmonary HTN
2. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
3. Coronary spasm
4. HF
Differential dx of a STEMI?
- Pericarditis, myocarditis
- Stress induced Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (mimics ACS, LV apical balloning)
- Early ventricular repolarization in healthy patients, esp in AA
What can increase troponin level?
- Damage to myocardium
- Contusion, surgery, shock
- cardiomyopathies, HF
- Aortic dissection, AI, severe AS
- Tachycardia
- Pulmon: PE, pulm HTN, RF
- Renal: renal failure, shock
- Neurogenic: stroke or intracranial hemorrhage.
What will CBC show with STEMI?
mildly elevated WBC
- check troponin and CK-MB
CMP Panel shows what?
electrolytes, Mg, Ca, BUN, LFT
When are BNP levels increased?
- HF
- Stress to wall of ventricle d/t too much fluid
CRP may be ______ in STEMI?
increased
What is the initial stress test should we do if STEMI?
- Treadmill excercise
Then, stress echo to look at motion of wall, valve function and monitor cardiac rhythm.
When should pharmacologic stress testing be done w CP?
What are they?
When patient cannot excercise
- Vasodilator nuclear perfusion (via adenosine or regadenoson)
- Dobutamine nulcear perufsion (if cannot tolerate vasodilator or excercise)
- Dobutamin echo
What imaging should be done when a patient has chest pain?
- CXR
- Echo
- Cardiac MRI to look at thickness of wall and size of chambers.
Supply angina is caused by what?
Decrease in O2 supply to the heart due stenosis, vasoconstriction, causing platelets to release 5HT and TXA2 => platelet aggregation
Demand angina is caused by what?
<3 needs more O2 due increased workload => ischemia
- stress, excerise, fever, thyrotoxicosis, LVH due to AS, anemia
What are symptoms of stable angina?
Pattern of pain?
- Chest pain on exertion, emotion, stress that lasts 5-15 minutes and is relieved by rest of nitro.
- Does not change in freq, duration or intensite
What does a patient with stable angina show on ECG?
- 50% have NL ECG
- -ST depression/ST elevation
What is a unstable angina?
- ACS (acute coronary syndrome) that causes CP due to rupture of a atherosclerptic plaque => platelet aggregation and thrombus formation that partially occludes the artery.
- Increase frequency, severity, lasts longer than 15-20 minutes that occurs at rest/less effort.
NSTEMI myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) is distinguished from unstable angina by…
NSTEMI will have:
- High levels of cardiac enzymes (troponin/CKMB)
- Biomarkers of myocyte necrosis
What does NSTEMI look like on ECG?
- ST depression
- T wave inversion
How do we treat stable angina?
- 1. Low sat/trans fat diet, low Na+ diet, lose weight
- Nitroglycerin as needed for CP; 1 sublingual tab/5min; do not take 3 in a row.
- Long acting nitrates, B-blocker, CCB for coronary spasm, aspin, ACE-I
How do we treat ACS (unstable angina/NSTEMI)?
- Nitroglycerin, B-blocker, ASA, statin
- ACE-I
- Platlet ANT/aNTi-coag
What is a STEMI?
- ST-elevated MI: Thrombus formed by erosion, fissure or rupture of plaque that completely interupts flow to heart (transmural)
- D/t; atherosclerosis**, coronary spasm, vasculitis, dissection
What is the ECG criteria for a STEMI?
- ST elevation in 2 continguous limb leads
- or
- 2 mm ST elevations in 2 continous precordial leads or new LBBB
Describe the pain in a STEMI?
- More severe than angina and cannot be relieved by NTG or rest
- substernal => neck/jaw => left arm
- N/V, SOB, sweating
Are all STEMIs painful?
20% are painless, esp in elderly female with DB
How do we treat STEMI?
- Hospital + cardiac catheterization
- PCI (percutaneous coronary intervention) or fibrinolytic therapy (clot buster)