Coroner urges GPs to consider aortic dissection with chest pain
The failure to consider the differential diagnosis was a 'lost opportunity' to potentially prevent the patient's death, the coroner found
An elderly woman died from a missed aortic dissection a few days after consulting her GP for chest pain, a coroner has found.
Pamela Robson Pattison, 75, presented to her GP in southeast Victoria in February 2020 after experiencing central chest pain, radiating to her jaw, the previous night.
