Are you in your emergency medicine clerkship? Is a patient presenting with acute and severe “tearing” or “ripping” chest pain that radiates to the back? If so, tune into today's #DiagnosticsOnDemand to walk through diagnosing aortic dissection. An aortic dissection often occurs due to long-standing untreated high blood pressure. When blood tears through the intimal layer of the aortic wall and bleeds into the muscular layer, it creates an intraluminal flap and a double lumen, which means th