Each year 5 million patients come to emergency departments withchest pain.1 Some have acute, life-threatening illness, butmany others have nothing seriously wrong; some have a historyof coronary disease, whereas others have never had a cardiacevaluation. The task of the physician in the emergency departmentis to sort out the confusing array of patients with chest pain,and to do so rapidly, accurately, and efficiently.
Acute myocardial ischemia as a result of coronary atherosclerosisis the key concern in patients with chest pain. Patients withacute coronary syndromes are at considerable risk for deathand serious complications, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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