Diurnal, weekly and seasonal variations of chest pain in patients transported by emergency medical services.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Chest pain is among the leading causes for emergency medical services (EMS) activation. Acute myocardial infarction (MI) is not only one of the most critical aetiologies of chest pain, but also one of few conditions encountered by EMS that has been shown to follow a circadian pattern. Understanding the diurnal relationship between the inflow of chest pain patients and the likelihood of acute MI may inform prehospital and emergency department (ED) healthcare providers regarding the prediction, and hence prevention, of dire outcomes.

Methods

This was a secondary analysis of previously collected data from an observational prospective study that enrolled consecutive chest pain patients transported by a large metropolitan EMS system in the USA. We used the time of EMS

SUBMITTER: Faramand Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7316529 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature