Emergency Physicians Have Good First Instincts In Diagnosing Heart Attacks

A study out of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center demonstrates emergency room doctors are correctly identifying patients who are having a heart attack, even when laboratory tests haven’t yet confirmed it. The study used data from a registry called i*trACS, and analyzed patients with heart attack symptoms who were admitted to emergency departments (EDs) in eight participating U.S. centers. The findings were released today in the Emergency Medicine Journal.

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Filed under: Cardiovascular on July 25th, 2008