Emergency Department Cardiac Risk Stratification With High-Sensitivity vs Conventional Troponin HEART Pathway.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Patients presenting to the emergency department with chest pain are routinely risk stratified for major adverse cardiac events using the HEART (History, Electrocardiogram, Age, Risk factors, and Troponin) score pathway, which incorporates clinical features, risk factors, electrocardiography findings, and initial serum troponin testing. A new HEART pathway incorporating high-sensitivity troponin level may improve risk stratification among patients with possible acute myocardial infarction (AMI).

Objective

To compare health outcomes and resource use among emergency department patients undergoing cardiac risk stratification with a HEART pathway using conventional vs high-sensitivity serum troponin.

Design, setting, and participants

This multicenter pre-post co

SUBMITTER: Yore M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10731477 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature