Search results for "Chest pain"
October 19, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/10/19/
HEART score appears safe for ED triage of chest pain patients
The HEART score uses a patient's History, Electrocardiogram, Age, Risk factors, and initial Troponin to predict risk of major adverse cardiac events after an ED visit for chest pain.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/04/26/4.htm
26 Apr 2017
March 27, 2024
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/03/27/
March 8, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/03/08/
Troponin T, history, and EKG rule MI in or out in chest pain patients
Troponin alone was highly effective at ruling out acute myocardial infarction and adverse cardiac events within 30 days but would have missed 3 cases of unstable angina, the study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/03/30/1.htm
30 Mar 2016
March 2017
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/03/
November 2013
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/11/
Observation unit reduced costs for chest pain patients
In a study of emergency department patients with chest pain, observation care and a stress cardiac magnetic resonance imaging exam in place of traditional admission reduced costs with no effect on outcomes.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/08/17/3.htm
17 Aug 2011
October 2018
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/10/
Decisions about chest pain in ED shared successfully with patients
Low-risk patients with chest pain successfully used a decision aid to choose between stress testing on an observation unit or outpatient follow-up in a recent study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2012/05/23/3.htm
23 May 2012