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Aortic Dissection

Aortic Dissection

Aortic Dissection

FOAMed Wiki, Last updated 1/23/25

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Guidelines

Links	Source	Year
2022 ACC/AHA Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of Aortic Disease	AHA/ACC	2022
2024 ESC Guidelines for the management of peripheral arterial and aortic diseases	ESC	2024

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Core Review

Links	Source	Year
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm with Dissection	Clinical Monster	2022
Aortic Dissection - Diagnostics and Likelihood Ratios explained	theNNT	2012
Aortic Dissection: Why do we miss it? How to improve?	emDocs	2020
Critical Care Mini-Fellowship: Aortic Dissection	Clinical Monster	2020
High Risk Clinical Features for Acute Aortic Dissection: A Case–Control Study	AEM	2017
Malperfusion Syndromes of Aortic Dissection	Clinical Monster	2021
Nontraumatic Thoracic Aortic Dissection	WikiEM	2024
Thoracic Aortic Syndromes in the ED: Recognition and Management	EBMedicine $	2024

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Screening / Diagnostic Tools

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POCUS

Links	Source	Year
5 min sono - Aortic dissection	Core Ultrasound	2019
Aorta Ultrasound Made Easy: Step by Step Guide	POCUS 101

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D-dimer

Links	Source	Year
Aortic Dissection Detection Risk Score	MDCalc
Aortic Dissection Detection Risk Score – Is It Clinically Useful?	JournalFeed $	2020
D-dimer for aortic dissection screening: is it ADvISEDable? A (relatively) brief lit review	Clinical Monster	2020
D-dimer for aortic dissection: the evidence	First10EM	2017

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Chest X-ray

Links	Source	Year
CXR to Screen for Acute Aortic Syndromes	JournalFeed $	2019

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ECG

Links	Source	Year
Electrocardiographic changes in patients with type A acute aortic dissection	Journal of Cardiology	2010

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Other Topics

Links	Source	Year
Fluoroquinolones and Aortic Dissection – Again	JournalFeed $	2018
Fluoroquinolone Risk in Known Aortic Dissection-Aortic Aneurysm Patients	JournalFeed $	2021

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