BookMargarita Pena, Anwar Osborne, William Franklin Peacock, editors.
Summary: The second edition of this book 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, it presents the science and methodology that has allowed the remarkable improvements in diagnostic accuracy and improved patient outcomes for the evaluation of patients presenting with suspected acute coronary syndromes. Chapters address key issues of the implementation of high sensitivity troponin and the use of contemporary non-invasive myocardial perfusion evaluation technologies (e.g., coronary artery computed tomography). It also addresses the cutting edge application of new technologies that promise to effect the early identification of coronary vascular disease. This new edition offers updated chapters as well as brand new chapters. Short Stay Management of Chest Pain is a valuable tool for acute care physicians, nurses, and hospital administrators devoted to caring for this population.
Contents:
Chapter 1. Epidemiology and Demographics of Coronary Artery Disease
Chapter 2. Financial Impact of Acute Coronary Syndromes
Chapter 3. Billing for Short Stay Chest Pain Services
Chapter 4. Why have Chest Pain Patients in a Short Stay Unit?
Chapter 5. What is the Value of Accreditation in Cardiology?
Chapter 6. Pathophysiology and Definition of Acute Coronary Syndromes
Chapter 7. Emergency Department Presentation of Chest Pain
Chapter 8. Chest Pain Risk Stratification by History, Physical, and EKG
Chapter 9. The Role of Biomarkers Chest Pain Evaluation
Chapter 10. Are Risk Scoring Systems Necessary?
Chapter 11. Emergency Department Disposition of Patients Presenting with Chest Pain
Chapter 12. Short Stay Unit Requirements
Chapter 13. Medical Therapy of Chest Pain Patients Managed in a Short Stay Unit
Chapter 14. Provocative Testing for the Evaluation of Patients with Chest Pain
Chapter 15. Use of Multi-slice CT for the Evaluation of Patients with Chest Pain
Chapter 16. Use of MRI for the Evaluation of Patients with Chest Pain
Chapter 17. New Technologies for the Evaluation of Acute Coronary Syndromes: Magnetocardiography
Chapter 18. Disposition from the Short Stay Unit
19. Examples of Short Stay Chest Pain Protocols, Order Sheets and Discharge Instructions. .