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Abstract 4134796: Safety of over 1000 consecutive, selected low risk patients with accelerated discharge from a chest pain unit with early generation cardiac troponin use, no cardiac functional or anatomic testing and no clinical risk scores

Circulation

LR was based on normal examination, stable hemodynamics, normal electrocardiograms (ECG), and negative cardiac troponin I, without pre-discharge functional or anatomic cardiac testing or risk scores. Length of stay (LOS) in the CPU to discharge was 10.4

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What will you do for this patient transferred to you who is now asymptomatic?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

A middle-aged woman with history of hypertension presented to another hospital approximately 2 hours after onset of chest pain and shortness of breath. Early Continuous ST Segment Monitoring in Unstable Angina: Prognostic Value Additional to the Clinical Characteristics and the Admission Electrocardiogram. mm STE in V1 and 1.5-2.0

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