Key points A 57-year-old man presented to the emergency department with back and right upper quadrant abdominal pain that progressed to painful right leg swelling over a few days. His vital signs at ...

For diagnosing NSTEMI, the ESC 0/3-hour criteria ... Acute Cardiac Care9 to permit a diagnosis if hs-cTn is not available at 3 hours. Therefore, the present substudy of the RAPID-CPU (High Sensitivity ...

Dr. Jose Jacob stresses that clinicians must be alert to the signs, as non-invasive tools may not be enough, and should weigh ...

further diagnostic testing, treatment and 30-day outcomes. The primary hypothesis is that there is a difference in the incidence of 30-day major adverse clinical events (MACE) in acute chest pain and ...

Objective Patients with suspected acute myocardial infarction ... cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) criteria in patients presenting with chest discomfort to 26 emergency departments in three international, ...

Objective The emergency department assessment of chest pain score accelerated diagnostic pathway (EDACS-ADP ... interpreted by staff emergency physicians according to prespecified criteria, described ...

Patients attending the emergency department with acute chest pain of possible cardiac ischaemic origin were eligible for CPU care unless they met the following exclusion criteria: (1) ECG changes ...

umcutrecht.nl Objective Chest discomfort and shortness of breath (SOB) are key symptoms in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS ... with high urgency allocation (U1/U2), and its potential ...

It is the first fully cardiospecific biomarker and for that reason has supplanted creatine kinase-MB (CKMB) as the biomarker of choice for the evaluation of patients with possible acute myocardial ...

Methods and analysis The POB HELP study is a clustered randomised controlled diagnostic trial investigating the (cost-)effectiveness and diagnostic accuracy of a primary care decision rule for acute ...

Chest pain presents differently across individuals ... some researchers are now calling for separate diagnostic criteria for people of different sexes.