Healio

ACC, AHA publish first guideline for evaluation, diagnosis of chest pain

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For the first time, the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical ...
Medscape

ACC/AHA Issue Chest Pain Data Standards Update to 2021 Guideline

The American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) have issued a set of data standards for chest pain and acute myocardial infarction (MI) to accompany last year's guidelines ...
Medscape

AHA/ACC Issues First Comprehensive Guidance on Chest Pain

Clinicians should use standardized risk assessments, clinical pathways, and tools to evaluate and communicate with patients who present with chest pain (angina), advises a joint clinical practice ...
TCTMD

US Chest Pain Guidelines Will Change Practice, Though Gaps Remain

With over a month to digest the long-awaited American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) chest pain guidelines, physicians across the US are mostly happy to see a wide swath of ...
TCTMD

hs-Troponins and the Chest Pain Guidelines: Experts Call for Clarification

Guidelines on the evaluation and diagnosis of stable chest pain put out last year by the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) may have endorsed the use of ...
Healio

Top in cardiology: Chest pain guidelines, telecardiology advances

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology and five other societies established new ...
Medical Xpress

Chest pain may extend outside the chest, often needs to be checked by a professional

Chest discomfort associated with a heart attack or heart event may often be felt beyond the chest, with many people reporting pain in their shoulders, arms, jaw, neck, back and upper abdomen. A new ...
MedPage Today

Established Chest Pain Algorithm Not Up to Snuff in U.S. Study

In some U.S. emergency departments (EDs), the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 0/1-hour troponin algorithm has shown uniquely poor performance ruling out cardiac events in patients presenting with ...
St. Louis American

AHA study: Women, Black adults have longer ER waits for chest pain

Younger women and African American adults experiencing chest pain wait longer to get care in the emergency room than their respective male and white counterparts, research shows. According to the ...
Becker's Hospital Review

AHA, ACC update chest pain data standards

The document, published Aug. 30 in the AHA’s journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, standardized data elements for consistent reporting on chest pain cases and established new ...
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ACC, AHA issue updated chest pain data standards

Chest pain is one of the leading reasons for adult emergency room visits in the United States, accounting for more than 7 million visits annually. Properly identifying and treating dangerous and ...