Question 66 · LDEK · Cardiac emergencies
The symptoms like a strong chest pain not alleviated by opioids that radiates in various directions, asymmetrical pulse and differences in the blood pressure between limbs may indicate:
- A. ST-elevation myocardial infarction - STEMI.
- B. aortic dissection.
- C. pulmonary embolism.
- D. pericarditis.
- E. acute cholecystitis.
Hint
Pulse and blood pressure asymmetry between limbs suggests a process involving the origins of the great arteries.
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