Chest Pain Evaluation – Diagnostic Testing

Chest pain/discomfort (CP) is a common symptom and can be diagnostic dilemma for many clinicians the misdiagnosis of an acute or progressive chronic cardiac etiology may carry significant risk morbidity mortality. This review summarizes different options modalities establishing diagnosis severity CAD. An effective test selection algorithm should individually tailored to each patient maximize accuracy in timely fashion, determine short- long-term prognosis, permit implementation evidence-based treatments cost-effective manner. Through collaboration, decision was developed (www.chowmd.ca/cadtesting) that could adopted widely into clinical practice.