Usefulness of serial ECG monitoring to risk stratify chest pain patients with a nondiagnostic initial ECG
β Scribed by Fesmire, Francis M.; Percy, Robert F.; Bardonner, Jim B.; Calhoun, Frank B.; Atkins, Jeffery V.
- Book ID
- 122171787
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 142 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1558-3597
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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