A Risk Assessment Score and Initial High-sensitivity Troponin Combine to Identify Low Risk of Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Emergency Department

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 434-443

  Pickering, John W ^a,b   Flaws, Dylan ^c,d   Smith, Stephen W ^e   Greenslade, Jaimi ^c   Cullen, Louise ^c   Parsonage, William ^c   Carlton, Edward ^f   Mark Richards, A ^b,g   Troughton, Richard ^b   Pemberton, Christopher ^b   George, Peter M ^b   Than, Martin P ^a  

^a CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^g NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN; TROPONIN T; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; TROPONIN I;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE ASSESSMENT; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT ASSESSMENT OF CHEST PAIN SCORE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR ADVERSE CARDIAC EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; VERY ELDERLY; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX PAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; BIOMARKERS; CHEST PAIN; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85038103929     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.13343     Document Type: Article

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