Chest Pain

Outcomes of early (within 24 hours) vs. late (more than 24 hours) presentation to the hospital in patients with non-STEMI.

The inaugural chest pain guideline, from the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association, redefines how physicians discuss chest pain with patients and provides a detailed clinical decision pathway for diagnosis and management.

Delayed presentation of 24 hours or more after non-STEMI symptom onset was associated with greater risk for all-cause death, recurrent MI and HF hospitalization compared with earlier presentation, researchers reported.

The Healio and Cardiology Today Editors have compiled the top news from November.

The American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology and five other societies established new guidelines for chest pain, with focuses on informing patients, listening to women and coronary artery calcium testing.

The American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology recently released the first chest pain guideline written under their purview.

The American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association recently published recommendations for chest pain care, including which patients should receive further testing as well as which testing is most effective.

Healio and Cardiology Today have compiled a list of the most-read cardiology news of October 2021.

For the first time, the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines published recommendations for the evaluation and diagnosis of patients who present to the ED with chest pain.

Early echocardiography for suspected acute MI in the presence of left bundle branch block may not increase diagnostic accuracy in differentiating chest pain from other causes in hemodynamically stable patients, researchers reported.