491 Fate of “Low Risk” Chest Pain Patients Discharged From the Emergency Department
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Low-risk patients with chest pain and without evidence of myocardial infarction may be safely discharged from emergency department.
AIMS This study is an audit of the risk stratification of patients admitted to a university hospital emergency department with a suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The main aim of the study was to investigate the prognosis of those patients who were discharged to home from the emergency room (ER) or adjacent chest pain observation unit (CPU). METHODS AND RESULTS Three thousand one hundr...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Heart, Lung and Circulation
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1443-9506
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2020.09.498