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Focus on POCUS: Pleuritic Chest Pain with Tachycardia – Pericarditis or PE?

Focus on POCUS: Pleuritic Chest Pain with Tachycardia – Pericarditis or PE?

by emottawa | Feb 21, 2017 | Ultrasound

A young, previously healthy male in his 30s presents to the ED from his family physicians office with chest pain and an abnormal ECG. He has a 3-4 day history of non-radiating upper back pain and sensation of chest tightness that is pleuritic in nature and worse when...
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