... Americans visit U.S. emergency departments for chest pain each year. Although just ... studied 568 Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania chest pain patients who were screened for acute coronary ...
... heart attack is to relieve angina (or episodic chest pain), according to background information in the article. The prevalence ... (1.2 percent) reported having daily chest pain, 59 (3 percent) reported ...
... of published research and expert consensus, the society developed criteria for the accreditation of chest pain centers.
"The objective of this study was to determine if adherence to CMS core ...
... patient promptly. Currently it is a challenge to identify chest pain patients with significant coronary artery ... 64-slice CT scanner, in low-risk chest pain patients in an emergency department setting. ...
... at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, sought to determine the cost-effectiveness of utilising a CT scanner to evaluate low-risk chest pain patients in the emergency room...
... attack who come to the emergency room with acute chest pain, according to a recent study conducted by researchers ... .
55-year-old men with acute chest pain increased emergency department and hospital ...
... the thesis shows that it is important to improve knowledge and understanding of the symptoms experienced by patients with unexplained chest pain, in order to be able to offer more individualised care.
... , 24-h intra-esophageal pH monitoring and a Holter electrocardiography for the differential diagnosis of chest pain caused by esophageal dysfunctional and/or myocardial ischemia. A research team led ...
... in Seattle, WA. Fifty three low-risk chest pain patients were compared by using results from a cardiac CT ... US emergency rooms each year with chest pain and the majority of these are low risk. Dealing ...
Using cardiac CT to diagnose low risk patients with chest pain is significantly cheaper -- 44 percent less than the standard of care -- and can decrease the length of hospital stay up to 20 hours, ...
... four or more cardiac risk factors.
The physicians hypothesize that this difficult to diagnose chest pain could be caused by microvascular angina and endothelial dysfunction, affecting blood vessels ...
... Penn study examined 683 cases in 2006 and 2007 in which EMS was summoned for a complaint of chest pain and brought patients to one of three Philadelphia hospitals in the University of Pennsylvania ...
Women with chest pain but without coronary artery disease are at an elevated risk for cardiovascular events such as heart attack or stroke, new research shows.
The first long-term study following a large number of chest pain patients who are screened with coronary computerized tomographic angiography confirms that the test is a safe, effective way to rule ...
... of cardiac CT for low-risk chest pain patients in the emergency department, instead of the traditional ... US emergency rooms each year with chest pain and up to 79% of those patients fall into the low- ...
