Safety and Utility of Exercise Testing in Emergency Room Chest Pain Centers
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Safety, feasibility, and results of exercise testing for stratifying patients with chest pain in the emergency room.
OBJECTIVE To assess safety, feasibility, and the results of early exercise testing in patients with chest pain admitted to the emergency room of the chest pain unit, in whom acute myocardial infarction and high-risk unstable angina had been ruled out. METHODS A study including 1060 consecutive patients with chest pain admitted to the emergency room of the chest pain unit was carried out. Of t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.102.12.1463