R.E.B.E.L. EM
R.E.B.E.L. EM - By Salim Rezaie - Clinical Assistant Professor of EM and IM
at University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA)
"Chest pain is a common presentation complaint to the emergency department (ED) and has a wide range of etiologies including urgent diagnoses (i.e. acute coronary syndrome (ACS), pulmonary embolism, aortic dissection) and non-urgent diagnoses (i.e. musculoskeletal pain, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), pericarditis). The challenge in the ED is to not only to identify high risk patients but also to identify patients who can be safely discharged home. Specifically, when dealing with ACS, dynamic ECG changes or positive cardiac biomarkers is pretty much a slam dunk admission in most cases, but a lack of these does not completely rule out ACS. Currently, most guidelines and risk stratification scores focus on the identification of high risk ACS patients that would benefit from early aggressive therapies, but what about all the other chest pain patients that don’t have ACS… are they accounted for?"
http://rebelem.com/heart-score-new-ed-chest-pain-risk-stratification-score/
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http://www.mdcalc.com/heart-score-for-major-cardiac-events/