Chest Pain in the ED: The Language of an Emergency Triage Assessment for OET Speaking & NMC OSCE
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Mr. Sullivan walks into the Emergency Department with chest pain that's never felt like this before — and Staff Nurse Pillai has only minutes to take a structured history, get him monitored, and start ruling out the dangerous causes. Nadia and Tom cover ten essential chest-pain triage terms: chest pain, onset, radiation, associated symptoms, shortness of breath, ECG, troponin, cardiac monitor, rule out, and pathway. Each term is defined and demonstrated in a realistic ED triage assessment — t...
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