A distress call owing to chest pains versus real diagnosis of a flying squad

This bachelor thesis is called: A distress call owing to chest pains versus real diagnosis of a flying squad. Thesis deals with possible causes of inception of chest pains and possibilities of their diagnosis. Theoretical part contains definitions of emergency medical services, differential diagnosis, ischemic heart disease and inflammatory heart diseases which cause chest pains. There are also described respiratory disease, cardiac arrhythmia and other possible causes of inception of chest pains, hypertension, hypoventilation, swoon. There are provided descriptions of cause, symptoms and prehospital emergency care of every mentioned disease. There was conducted a qualitative research and was presented in practical part of this bachelor thesis. Collection of data was based on technique of analysis of secondary data (archived recordings of distress call, departure records) as well as on the method of specific selection. The research sample consisted of case studies of distress calls owing to chest pains and of departure records used at emergency medical service of South Bohemia region. On the account of the quantity ofthe distress calls owing to chest pains wereto this research chosen and compared, after supervisor's advice, only the distress calls owing to chest pains from the months of July and December 2014. The aim of this thesis was to find out the most frequent cause of chest pains. Mapping was done enumeration of specific diagnoses and inserting tables. The research question was: ,,What are the most frequent chest pains?"On the grounds of the quantity of the distress calls owing to chest pains, were to this research chosen, after supervisor's advice, only the distress calls owing to chest pains from the months of July and December 2014. These months were chosen because they both are climaxes of summer/winter periods. The most frequent diagnosis in December 2014 was chest pains NS. There were 145 cases of this diagnosis in December. This diagnosis was the most frequent one in July as well. There were 108 cases of it in July. These facts can be clearly seen in table 1 and 2 which contain diagnosis based on symptom of chest pains. From data, which were collected and analyzed in the practical part, itis obvious, that distress call owing to chest pains can be caused by various conditions. Diagnosis of flying squad showed that chest pains can be caused by cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, gastrointestinal disorders, backache, arm fracture, etc. However, flying squad is not always able to diagnose the cause of chest pains. These cases are labeled as chest pain NS, other pains NS, etc