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VIDEO: Novel risk-stratification score aims to streamline ED management of patients with chest pain
CHICAGO — Thomas A. Holly, MD, of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, discusses a new approach to improve the ED management of patients in the setting of angina and ACS.
He provides investigator insight on the development of a score that could hasten the movement of patients through the ED along with context for the research, citing interest in the HEART score and the TIMI score.
Holly goes on to describe the retrospective study and related process of creating the method to risk-stratify patients for earlier stress-testing sooner vs. waiting for troponin levels.
“The implications of this are that we can get people through the ED faster who are not having an ACS,” Holly said
He notes limitations of the research as well as plans for further investigation.
“People are asking if they can collaborate. Hopefully we can do a prospective study in the future that would help with the management of patients with chest pain,” he said.