Following a scoping search, formulation of the inclusion/exclusion criteria began. The PICOS (population, intervention, comparator, outcome and study design) framework was used to aid this process...
There are various causes of chest pain, including those of cardiac, gastrointestinal and respiratory origin. Table 1 shows the common causes and describes their presentation..
It is assumed paramedics can safely identify those chest pain patients who are critically ill: those that are hemodynamically unstable for example, as well as most of the life-threatening aetiologies...
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