Performance of Emergency Department Screening Criteria for an Early ECG to Identify ST‐Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction

Performance of Emergency Department Screening Criteria for an Early ECG to Identify ST‐Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction

Background Timely diagnosis of ST‐segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) in the emergency department (ED) is made solely by ECG. Obtaining this test within 10 minutes of ED arrival is critical to achieving the best outcomes. We investigated variability in the timely identification of STEMI...

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Main Authors: Maame Yaa A. B. Yiadom, Christopher W. Baugh, Conor M. McWade, Xulei Liu, Kyoung Jun Song, Brian W. Patterson, Cathy A. Jenkins, Mary Tanski, Angela M. Mills, Gilberto Salazar, Thomas J. Wang, Robert S. Dittus, Dandan Liu, Alan B. Storrow
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2017-03-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
emergency department
false‐negative rate
informedness
missed case rate
screening
ST‐segment elevation myocardial infarction
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.116.003528

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