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Short Stay Management of Chest Pain

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Editors:
  1. Christopher P. Cannon
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  2. William Franklin Peacock
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  • Outlines the rationale for the establishment of a chest pain unit (CPU)
  • Covers all medical aspects of CPU use and management as well as the staffing legal regulatory and required fiscal necessities
  • Represents the second in a series produced in collaboration with the Society of Chest Pain Centers
  • Explains treatment suitable to administer during the risk stratification process
  • Consists of numerous clinical pathways being used by various hospitals and systems to adapt the successful strategies utilized by other institutions to their own patient care environment
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Contemporary Cardiology (CONCARD)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Epidemiology and Demography of Coronary Artery Disease

    • Shahriar Dadkhah, Korosh Sharain
    Pages 1-13

  3. Financial Impact of Acute Coronary Syndromes: The Need for New Care Delivery Models

    • Sandra Sieck
    Pages 15-35

  4. Why Have a Chest Pain Unit?

    • Annitha Annathurai, Michael A. Ross
    Pages 37-54

  5. Pathophysiology and Definition of the Acute Coronary Syndromes

    • Ezra A. Amsterdam, Deborah Diercks, J. Douglas Kirk
    Pages 55-65

  6. Emergency Department Presentation

    • Jeffrey A. Holmes, Sean Collins
    Pages 67-78

  7. Risk Stratification: History, Physical, and EKG

    • Alan B. Storrow, Ian McClure, Elizabeth Harbison
    Pages 79-90

  8. Cardiac Markers: A Chest Pain Center Focus

    • Robert H. Christenson
    Pages 91-113

  9. Risk Stratification Using Scoring Systems

    • Judd E. Hollander, Anna Marie Chang
    Pages 115-124

  10. Emergency Department Disposition of Patients Presenting with Chest Pain

    • Kelly Owen, Deborah B. Diercks
    Pages 125-141

  11. Short-Stay Unit Requirements

    • Louis Graff
    Pages 143-145

  12. Medical Therapy in Patients Managed in a Chest Pain Observation Unit

    • James McCord
    Pages 147-153

  13. Provocative Testing

    • J. Douglas Kirk, Michael C. Kontos, Ezra A. Amsterdam
    Pages 155-184

  14. Use of Multislice CT and MRI for the Evaluation of Patients with Chest Pain

    • Brian O’Neil, Michael J. Gallagher, Gilbert L. Raff
    Pages 185-203

  15. Disposition from the Short Stay Unit

    • Chris A. Ghaemmaghami, William J. Brady
    Pages 205-217

  16. Examples of Patient Discharge Instructions, ACS Rule Out Protocols, and Order Sheets

    • Kay S. Holmes
    Pages 219-262

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 263-271
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About this book

Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) continues to challenge our health care system in the complexity of presentation and the ever increasing number of patients exhibiting signs and symptoms of an acute coronary syndrome. Written by leading experts, Short Stay Management of Chest Pain provides scientific and clinical insights on the management of patients who arrive at the hospital with a presentation consistent with a potential acute coronary syndrome. Focusing on the cardiology aspects of chest pain, Short Stay Management of Chest Pain is a valuable tool for acute care physicians, nurses, and hospital administrators devoted to caring for this population. Short Stay Management of Chest Pain details the remarkable improvements in diagnostic accuracy and improved patient outcomes for patients presenting with suspected acute coronary syndromes.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Short Stay Management of Chest Pain

  • Editors: Christopher P. Cannon, William Franklin Peacock

  • Series Title: Contemporary Cardiology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-948-2

  • Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Humana Press 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-5720-0Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-60327-948-2Published: 05 June 2009

  • Series ISSN: 2196-8969

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-8977

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 271

  • Topics: Cardiology, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine

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