Chest Pains versus Stomach Pains: Understanding the Difference - a podcast by Osceola Regional Medical Center

It is very important to know the difference between the signs and symptoms of a heart attack, chest pains and abdominal pains to make sure we are not either missing the symptoms for a gallbladder attack for a heart attack or a heart attack for a gallbladder attack. / So there are different ways that we can differentiate those, that is why we do a stress test when signs and symptoms are non-specific and we are not so sure. And the patient has enough risk factors being diabetic, smoker, high blood pressure, obesity. Then we tend to pursue more towards heart disease and do a specialized stress test with additional nuclear a to see if it is additional blockage in the arteries that is causing the symptoms. / If we are not convinced and we think it is abdominal pain we can always offer ultra sound and surgical consultation and find out what it is.

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