New method quickly determines if chest pain is acute coronary syndrome
Monday, November 4, 2013 - 13:00
in Health & Medicine
Researchers have tested a new method for quickly ruling out acute myocardial infarction or other serious acute coronary disease in Emergency Department patients complaining of chest pains. The method seems able to reduce the percentage of cardiac patients who need to be kept in the hospital under observation by 10 to 20 percent. A number of hospitals in the the cities of Stockholm and Uppsala will start applying the method this winter.