Short Stay Management of Chest Pain

2. Epidemiology and Demography of Coronary Artery Disease
Shahriar Dadkhah, Korosh Sharain

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

4. Why Have a Chest Pain Unit?
Annitha Annathurai, Michael A. Ross

5. Pathophysiology and Definition of the Acute Coronary Syndromes
Ezra A. Amsterdam, Deborah Diercks, J. Douglas Kirk

6. Emergency Department Presentation
Jeffrey A. Holmes, Sean Collins

7. Risk Stratification: History, Physical, and EKG
Alan B. Storrow, Ian McClure, Elizabeth Harbison

8. Cardiac Markers: A Chest Pain Center Focus
Robert H. Christenson

9. Risk Stratification Using Scoring Systems
Judd E. Hollander, Anna Marie Chang

10. Emergency Department Disposition of Patients Presenting with Chest Pain
Kelly Owen, Deborah B. Diercks

11. Short-Stay Unit Requirements
Louis Graff, iv

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

13. Provocative Testing
J. Douglas Kirk, Michael C. Kontos, Ezra A. Amsterdam

14. Use of Multislice CT and MRI for the Evaluation of Patients with Chest Pain
Brian O’Neil, Michael J. Gallagher, Gilbert L. Raff

15. Disposition from the Short Stay Unit
Chris A. Ghaemmaghami, William J. Brady

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

Nyckelord: Medicine & Public Health, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Cardiology