Course:
Clinical Strategies - Pain Series, College of Radiographers CPD Endorsed, Diseases and Conditions
Module:
Clinical Strategies - Acute Myocardial Infarction
Module Description:
Audience: All medical professionals
Prerequisites: None
This aim of this tutorial by Ashley Davidoff, M.D. is to provide a comprehensive review of chest pain and myocardial infarction. After completion of this tutorial, the learner will understand the causes of acute coronary syndromes, the characteristic clinical presentations, the general approach to management as well as the usual diagnostic algorithm, procedures and imaging studies that are performed. The course begins with a review of the applied anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology of chest pain.
Learning Objectives
* Define the terminology including acute coronary syndrome, unstable angina, myocardial infarction and ST elevation.
* Discuss the causes of the myocardial infarction.
* Describe the applied anatomy of the heart, physiology and pathophysiology.
* Discuss the characteristic clinical presentations of chest pain.
* Recognize the usual diagnostic algorithm and procedures that are performed.
* Practice the general approach to the management.
Author:
Dr. Ashley Davidoff
About the author:
Ashley Davidoff, M.D. is Professor of Clinical Radiology, Co-Director of Abdominal Imaging, and Director of Radiologic Education at Caritas St Elizabeth's Medical Center, an affiliate of Tufts Medical School. Dr. Davidoff graduated from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa with a degree in medicine, with subsequent Fellowships in Pediatric Cardiology at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada; Fellow in Cardiac Pathology, Children's Medical Center, Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA; Fellow in Angiography and Interventional Radiology at Harvard Medical School; Residency in General Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Instructor in Radiology, Ultrasound Department at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Davidoff is a member of the Radiological Society of North America since 1991, and is published in numerous peer review journals, including book chapters. He has an interest in art and medicine and currently has an exhibit at the Museum of Science in Boston.
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