- Phone NHS 24: A, wrong, this would delay the patients care
- Ask Hamish to come back in a week if he has further pain: A, wrong, mortality is highest in the few hours after the onset of symptoms
- Ask Flora to drive him to the Emergency Department: A, wrong, Hamish requires access to resuscitation and monitoring facilities
- Prescribe indigestion remedy and advise him to go home to bed: A, wrong, history suggests Hamishs pain may be cardiac and therefore warrants further assessment
- Suggest that Hamish takes it easy going upstairs and gives up country dancing: wrong, Hamish needs to be assessed and treated for likely cardiac pathology
- Refer to Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinic: Incorrect, patients with acs should not be referred to RACPC : patient has unstable symptoms
- Phone 999: Correct; GP arranges emergency admission
Page last reviewed: 08 Jun 2020
