Nitroglycerine tablets under the tongue are usually taken, one tablet, every five minutes up to a total of three tablets. If the patient is still having chest pain, they are instructed to take the fourth tablet and go to the nearest emergency room for treatment.

In the event you feel any chest pain, it may be a sign of a serious heart related condition such as a heart attack or angina. Call an ambulance - Dial 000. Calvary's 24 hour Accident and Emergency Department has the very best in support services for managing heart problems. Calvary has an Intensive Care Specialist on-call 24 hours a day. Calvary Cardiac Centre has four heart specialists consulting on-site, one of whom is always available.

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This information could be accommodated within the database. However all clinical workers will have seen MI's presenting with pleuritic chest pain, appendicitis with right upper quadrant 'colicky' abdominal pain etc. The editorial decision is that documenting more qualitative or subjective items may represent reductio ad absurdum and potentially mislead.

This facility could be provided na?vely albeit selecting multiple items prior to the search using a web browser would be tedious. However the underlying question is usually "can the database return lists of differential diagnoses based on combinations of findings?" The answer is no. This database is not an artificially intelligent diagnostic tool! The database neither knows the patient you have in mind nor the probabilities of causal relationships.

The Heart Scan is recommended for patients with risk factors for coronary artery disease. Risk factors include family history of heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, smoking, high stress and physical inactivity. Patients with symptoms like chest pain should consult with their personal physicians immediately. Symptoms for coronary artery disease are serious and should not be treated lightly.

Not always. Angina is a heart condition. However you may have chest pain that is not related to your heart. If your chest pain has been tested and your physician advised you that you do not have a heart condition, you can answer NO to question 1.

Most patients have a catheter inserted at the time of surgery. This catheter is removed in the operating room or within 6 to 12 hours after surgery. Occasionally, the catheter must be reinserted because the patient is unable to void. If this occurs the catheter is usually removed 24 hours later to give the bladder a chance to recover.

Angina may have similar symptoms as a heart attack, such as: a crushing, squeezing pain in the chest; a feeling of pressure in the chest; or pain radiating in the arms, shoulders, jaw, neck, and/or back. However, unlike the chest pain associated with a heart attack, the pain from angina usually goes away within a few minutes with rest or with the use of a cardiac prescription medication (i.e., nitroglycerin). <For more information on angina>

You do not have to have chest pain to see a cardiologist. Discussing this with your primary physician would be the best first step. Anyone over the age of 40 who is initiating an exercise program should have a stress test first. Depending on your risk factors (smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, family history) it may be a good idea to see a cardiologist.

Thanks to advances in medication technology, we are able to keep you very comfortable after surgery. After surgery, any temporary discomfort does not compare to the pain of arthritis endured by most people in months and years before surgery. And because hip replacement patients are not “sick,” you will not be treated as such. You will wear casual clothing after surgery, not hospital gowns.

If TB disease is present, it is probably in the lungs. If your skin test is positive, you will be asked to get a chest x-ray on the day of your skin test reading. A chest x-ray takes a picture of the lungs and shows the doctor if there are any signs there of TB. View an abnormal X-ray the State TB Program, your waiting time for the x-ray will depend on the number of people ahead of you.

The laser procedure requires only local anesthetic and the patients do not feel any pain when the laser is working. Several days after the operation some tightness will be felt in the thigh. Advil or Ibuprofen is all that is needed for the discomfort.

Pain after surgery is something we like to minimize. However, after any type of operation we cannot totally eliminate pain. Pain medications will be ordered for you in appropriate doses. While in the hospital if you do not feel the pain medication is adequate, please feel free to speak to the hospital nurse or the surgeon when he/she makes rounds. If you have been discharged from the hospital and experience pain please contact our office. Pain medications can be adjusted.