Curriculum Quiz: ACCS Acute

We thought we'd create this mini summary of the resources we've found here and elsewhere to enable you to get the background to proficiently deliver and teach emergency medicine skills.

A hypertensive emergency is defined as the clinical situation in which there is a marked elevation of blood pressure (BP) associated with acute or progressive end organ damage, e.g. cardiovascular, renal or neurological dysfunction.

This session is about the pathophysiology of acute coronary syndromes, defining acute myocardial infarction and recognising the various presentations and clinical features associated with acute coronary syndromes.