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Patient Is Admitted Through the ER,presenting with Acute Chest Pain

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Patient is admitted through the ER,presenting with acute chest pain.The patient has a history of COPD and pneumonia as well as type 2 DM with diabetic neuropathy.He has a history of hypertension and gout for which he takes meds for both conditions.He is currently smoking about one pack per day.After study it is determined that patient has had an acute anterolateral wall infarct.He is taken to the cath lab for a PTCA with the insertion of a drug-eluting stent of the LAD.

Recognize the role of bias and evidence in intuitive judgments.
Understand the principles of calculating the probability of independent and dependent events occurring.
Grasp the concept of mutually exclusive vs compatible events and their impact on probability calculations.
Distinguish between the methods to calculate the probability of disjunctions and conjunctions in multiple events.

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