Key result
Structured ED assessment of acute chest pain differentiates life-threatening from self-limiting conditions.
This article provides a clinical approach to the assessment and early management of acute non-traumatic chest pain in the emergency department.
Supports structured ED triage for acute chest pain; leaves open optimal protocol selection pending prospective validation.
The assessment of patients with chest pain is challenging for any emergency physician because of the spectrum of illness covered by this symptom. Patients may have a serious life-threatening condition or a trivial self-limiting illness. This article presents an approach to the assessment and early management of patients presenting with acute non-traumatic chest pain in the emergency department.
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Cooper et al. (2000) studied this question. Clinical assessment of acute non-traumatic chest pain in the emergency department requires a structured approach to differentiate serious life-threatening conditions from self-limiting illnesses.
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