Comments on “Why do emergency department clinicians miss acute aortic syndrome? A case series and descriptive analysis”

Abstract

Dear Editor, In the recently published article by McLatchie et al., the authors state that emergency clinicians may miss acute aortic syndrome (AAS) by not considering it as a possibility, being falsely reassured by atypical or resolved symptoms, or mistaking it for other more common conditions.1 The authors emphasise the importance of always considering AAS in the differential diagnosis of chest, back or abdominal pains, collapse, perfusion deficits or neurological compromise and suggest a risk stratification scoring system such as ADD-RS in combination with D-dimer to standardise the approach and help physicians discern which patients to scan. [...]

Keywords

• Aortic dissection
• aorta
• point-of-care ultrasound
• ultrasound