• Emerg Med Australas · Aug 2013

    Introduction of an accelerated diagnostic protocol in the assessment of emergency department patients with possible acute coronary syndrome: the Nambour Short Low-Intermediate Chest pain project.

    • Terry George, Sarah Ashover, Louise Cullen, Peter Larsen, Jason Gibson, Jennifer Bilesky, Steven Coverdale, and William Parsonage.
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Nambour General Hospital, Nambour, Queensland, Australia. terry_george@health.qld.gov.au
    • Emerg Med Australas. 2013 Aug 1;25(4):340-4.

    AbstractEmergency physicians can feel pressured by opposing forces of clinical reality and the need to publish successful key performance indicators in an environment of increasing demands and cost containment. This is particularly relevant to management of patients with undifferentiated chest pain and possible acute coronary syndrome. Unreliability of clinical assessment and high risk of adverse outcomes for all concerned exist, yet national guidelines are at odds with efforts to reduce ED crowding and access block. We report findings from the Nambour Short Low-Intermediate Chest pain risk trial, which safely introduced an accelerated diagnostic protocol with reduced ED length of stay and high patient acceptability. Over a 7-month period, there were no major adverse cardiac events by 30 days in 19% of undifferentiated chest pain presentations with possible acute coronary syndrome discharged after normal sensitive cardiac troponin taken 2 h after presentation and scheduled to return for outpatient exercise stress test.© 2013 Australasian College for Emergency Medicine and Australasian Society for Emergency Medicine.

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