Emergency department assessment of patients with acute chest pain: myocardial perfusion imaging, blood tests, or both?
โ Scribed by Kevin C. Allman; S.Ben Freedman
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 42 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1071-3581
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๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Patients presenting to the emergency department with chest discomfort are a difficult problem for emergency physicians. Nearly 50% of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) will initially have nondiagnostic ECGs on ED presentation. The purpose of this study was to determine if patients with
## Study objective: The purpose of this study was to determine if thallium-201 myocardial planar imaging and technetium-99m first-pass radienuclide angiography, performed in the emergency department, could predict which patients with acute chest pain and nondiagnostic ECGs were more likely to have