The erlanger chest pain evaluation protocol: A one-year experience with serial 12-lead ECG monitoring, two-hour delta serum marker measurements, and selective nuclear stress testing to identify and exclude acute coronary syndromes

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 584-594

  Fesmire, Francis M ^a   Hughes, Alan D ^a   Fody, Edward P ^a   Jackson, Alan P ^a   Fesmire, Connie E ^a   Gilbert, Mark A ^a   Stout, Paul K ^a   Wojcik, James F ^a   Wharton, David R ^a   Creel, James H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE MB; TROPONIN I;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ERLANGER CHEST PAIN EVALUATION PROTOCOL; EVALUATION; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERUM;

EID: 18744415972     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mem.2002.129506     Document Type: Article

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