Diagnosis and risk stratification of chest pain patients in the emergency department: focus on acute coronary syndromes. A position paper of the Acute Cardiovascular Care Association.

Stepinska, Janina; Lettino, Maddelena; Ahrens, Ingo; Bueno, Hector; Garcia-Castrillo, Luis; Khoury, Abdo; Lancellotti, Patrizio; Mueller, Christian; Muenzel, Thomas; Oleksiak, Anna; Petrino, Roberta; Guimenez, Maria Rubini; Zahger, Doron; Vrints, Christiaan Jm; Halvorsen, Sigrun; de Maria, Elia; Lip, Gregory Yh; Rossini, Roberta; Claeys, Marc; Huber, Kurt

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Diagnosis and risk stratification of chest pain patients in the emergency department: focus on acute coronary syndromes. A position paper of the Acute Cardiovascular Care Association.

Stepinska, Janina; Lettino, Maddelena; Ahrens, Ingo et al.

2020 • In European Heart Journal. Acute Cardiovascular Care, p. 2048872619885346

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Chest pain; acute myocardial infarction; biomarkers; troponin

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[en] This paper provides an update on the European Society of Cardiology task force report on the management of chest pain. Its main purpose is to provide an update on the decision algorithms and diagnostic pathways to be used in the emergency department for the assessment and triage of patients with chest pain symptoms suggestive of acute coronary syndromes.

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Cardiovascular & respiratory systems

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Stepinska, Janina

Lettino, Maddelena

Ahrens, Ingo

Bueno, Hector

Garcia-Castrillo, Luis

Khoury, Abdo

Lancellotti, Patrizio ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Cardiologie - Pathologie spéciale et réhabilitation

Mueller, Christian

Muenzel, Thomas

Oleksiak, Anna

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English

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Diagnosis and risk stratification of chest pain patients in the emergency department: focus on acute coronary syndromes. A position paper of the Acute Cardiovascular Care Association.

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2020

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European Heart Journal. Acute Cardiovascular Care

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2048-8726

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2048-8734

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SAGE Publications Ltd, United Kingdom

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2048872619885346

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