In patients with chest pain presenting to the emergency department (ED), further cardiac testing within 30 days is associated with an increase in invasive coronary angiography and revascularization ...

The vast majority of patients who present to an emergency department (ED) with chest pain in the absence of MI should not undergo immediate further testing given their low risk of future MI, according ...

September 26, 2012 (Chicago, Illinois) — A provocative opinion piece published online September 17, 2012 in the Archives of Internal Medicine calls for a randomized trial comparing the current routine ...

In 2010, the American Heart Association reaffirmed the traditionally taught approach to the evaluation of patients with low-risk chest pain with a scientific statement [1] indicating that these ...

Patients who go to the emergency room (ER) with chest pain often receive unnecessary tests to evaluate whether they are having a heart attack, a practice that provides no clinical benefit and adds ...

For people with stable chest pain, a personalized "precision" testing approach led to more efficient evaluations for heart disease risk and improved diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery disease ...

People who come to the emergency department complaining of chest pain often get a test that isn't helping them very much, according to a new study. Most of the time, the study found, people had a ...

Reproducible chest pain means that a doctor or medical team can reproduce the pain under specific circumstances through pressing or touching. Doctors often use it as an early diagnostic tool when a ...

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