TCTMD

New Chest Pain Guidelines Out at Last: Most Tests Have a Role

Several years in development and beset by delays, guidelines out today from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (ACC/AHA), in conjunction with several other societies ...
Healio

ACC, AHA publish first guideline for evaluation, diagnosis of chest pain

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For the first time, the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical ...
Medscape

ACC/AHA Issue Chest Pain Data Standards Update to 2021 Guideline

The American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) have issued a set of data standards for chest pain and acute myocardial infarction (MI) to accompany last year's guidelines ...
TCTMD

hs-Troponins and the Chest Pain Guidelines: Experts Call for Clarification

Guidelines on the evaluation and diagnosis of stable chest pain put out last year by the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) may have endorsed the use of ...
Medscape

AHA/ACC Issues First Comprehensive Guidance on Chest Pain

Clinicians should use standardized risk assessments, clinical pathways, and tools to evaluate and communicate with patients who present with chest pain (angina), advises a joint clinical practice ...
MedPage Today

Established Chest Pain Algorithm Not Up to Snuff in U.S. Study

In some U.S. emergency departments (EDs), the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 0/1-hour troponin algorithm has shown uniquely poor performance ruling out cardiac events in patients presenting with ...
Healio

Revascularization rates higher with ‘CT first’ diagnosis of chest pain

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A “CT first” strategy was tied to higher revascularization rates vs. other tests for chest pain. CABG or PCI was ...
Newsweek

Emergency Room Wait for Chest Pain Longer for Women and Black Adults: Study

Women and people of color 55 and younger tend to face longer wait times than white men when they go to the emergency room seeking help for chest pain, according to a new data analysis published ...
St. Louis American

AHA study: Women, Black adults have longer ER waits for chest pain

Younger women and African American adults experiencing chest pain wait longer to get care in the emergency room than their respective male and white counterparts, research shows. According to the ...
Becker's Hospital Review

AHA, ACC update chest pain data standards

The document, published Aug. 30 in the AHA’s journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, standardized data elements for consistent reporting on chest pain cases and established new ...
EurekAlert!

ACC, AHA issue updated chest pain data standards

Chest pain is one of the leading reasons for adult emergency room visits in the United States, accounting for more than 7 million visits annually. Properly identifying and treating dangerous and ...