Short Stay Management of Chest Pain

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cannon, Christopher P. (Editor), Peacock, William Franklin. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2009.
• Series: Contemporary Cardiology
• Subjects: Medicine.; Emergency medicine.; Internal medicine.; Cardiology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Emergency Medicine.; Internal Medicine.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-948-2

Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) continues to challenge our health care system in the complexity of presentation and the ever increasing number of patients exhibiting signs and symptoms of an acute coronary syndrome. Written by leading experts, Short Stay Management of Chest Pain provides scientific an...

Table of Contents:

• Epidemiology and Demographics of Coronary Artery Disease
• Financial Impact of Acute Coronary Syndromes: The Need for New Care Delivery Models
• Why have a chest pain unit?
• Pathophysiology and Definition of the Acute Coronary Syndromes
• Emergency Department presentation
• Risk Stratification by History, Physical, and EKG
• Cardiac Markers: A Chest Pain Center Focus
• Risk Stratification Using Scoring Systems
• Emergency Department Disposition of Patients Presenting with Chest Pain
• Short Stay Unit Requirements
• Medical Therapy in Patients Managed in a Chest Pain Short Stay Unit
• Provocative testing
• Use of Multislice CT and MRI for the Evaluation of Patients with Chest Pain
• Disposition from the short stay unit
• Examples of patient discharge instructions, ACS rule out protocols, and order sheets .