Comparison of a 6-hour and 9-hour protocol for evaluation of moderate-to-low risk chest pain patients in an emergency department diagnostic unit

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 052-056

  Lateef, F ^a   Storrow, A B ^b   Malone, K ^b   Liu, T ^b   Gibler, B W ^b  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndrome; Chest pain centre

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE MB; ISOENZYME; TROPONIN I;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EVALUATION; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; THORAX PAIN; TIME; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CHEST PAIN; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE, MB FORM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PATIENT ADMISSION; RISK FACTORS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROPONIN I; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 17644446084     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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