Failure to diagnose aortic rupture in a timely manner
A woman came to the ED with pain, pressure, and tightness in the center of her chest.
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A woman came to the ED with pain, pressure, and tightness in the center of her chest.
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A 69-year-old man came to the ED with worsening shortness of breath. His history included smoking, COPD, and an occluded right coronary artery.
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A 65-year-old man began seeing Family Physician A for treatment of high cholesterol and bronchitis.
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A 74-year-old woman visited Cardiologist A with symptoms of congestive heart failure.
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A 43-year-old man came to the ED of a metropolitan hospital reporting chest pain, dizziness, diaphoresis, shortness of breath, and pain going down his arms.
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A patient’s wife called her husband’s family physician, requesting an appointment because her husband had chest pain.
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A 66-year-old man came to his internist reporting shortness of breath and chest pain for three weeks.
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A 66-year-old man came to the ED at 9:11 p.m. with chest pain. He was triaged at 9:14 p.m.
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A 62-year-old man came to the ED reporting pain in the “chest wall area.”
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A 57-year-old man came to the ED by ambulance after developing chest tightness and shortness of breath.
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An 8-year-old girl with congenital bicuspid aortic valve and aortic stenosis was scheduled for dental work.
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A woman in her early 60s went to a cardiologist for chest pain and dyspnea on exertion.
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Recommendations to help minimize the risk of lawsuits related to patient refusals.
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