Chest pain emergency centers: Improving acute myocardial infarction care
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Chest pain emergency centers: improving acute myocardial infarction care.
Uncertainty and delay are common in the diagnosis of acute coronary syndromes (ACS). In the last 20 years, the need for faster, more accurate, and more cost-effective diagnosis gave rise to the concept of specialized treatment of patients with chest pain in emergency departments (EDs). The original strategy dedicated a separate section of the ED and a nursing staff to the task of rapid interven...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Cardiology
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0160-9289,1932-8737
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960221603