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Acute Coronary Syndrome

Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, 2011
Implementation of the AHA/ACC standards for AMI is crucial for patient management and outcomes. The Centers for Medicare/Medicaid (CMS) has established indicators within the AMI core measure to ensure the evidence-based care is provided during the hospital stay.
Barbara, Leeper   +3 more
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Acute Coronary Syndromes

Cardiology, 1997
Acute coronary syndromes are defined as unstable angina, non-Q-wave myocardial infarction, and Q-wave myocardial infarction. These entities remain among the commonest life-threatening illnesses in industrialized nations. Prompt recognition of a patient with an acute coronary syndrome is important since appropriate therapy can markedly improve the ...
D D, Yun, J S, Alpert
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Allergic Acute Coronary Syndrome—Kounis Syndrome

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 2022
Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in the setting of an allergic/immunologic reaction is known as Kounis syndrome. It is an underdiagnosed and underrecognized disease entity. One must keep a high index of suspicions when managing a patient presenting with cardiac as well as allergic symptoms. There are 3 main variants to the syndrome.
Leen, Alblaihed   +1 more
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Acute coronary syndromes: diagnosis

The Lancet, 1999
I n t r o d u c t i o n Evaluation of patients admitted with acute chest pain is time consuming and expensive, while a substantial proportion of these patients do not really suffer from an acute coronary syndrome (ACS). 1'2 Risk stratification usually takes place in the emergency room and its primary aim is to identify or exclude life-threatening ...
P, Klootwijk, C, Hamm
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Troponins in Acute Coronary Syndromes

Seminars in Vascular Medicine, 2003
Delivering superior clinical specificity and sensitivity for myocardial necrosis, cardiac troponin has replaced creatine kinase-MB as the preferred biomarker for establishing the diagnosis of myocardial infarction. On the basis of expert recommendations, present convention sets the diagnostic decision-limit for each assay at the 99th percentile of ...
Benjamin M, Scirica, David A, Morrow
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Acute coronary syndromes

Blood Coagulation & Fibrinolysis, 2003
The acute coronary syndromes (ACS), which include unstable angina, non-ST-segment and ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction, all share common pathophysiology processes that are characterized by coronary plaque disruption with superimposed thrombus formation, leading to myocardial ischaemia.
Kaeng W, Lee, Gregory Y, Lip
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Acute Coronary and Acute Aortic Syndromes

Radiologic Clinics of North America, 2019
Multidetector-row computed tomography (MDCT) can provide crucial information and rapid triage of emergency department patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS) or acute aortic syndrome (AAS). Coronary computed tomography angiography has high negative predictive value to rule out ACS, and MDCT is diagnostic for AAS and its variants ...
Avanti, Gulhane, Harold, Litt
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Brugada Syndrome Mimicking Acute Coronary Syndrome

Southern Medical Journal, 2005
This report describes a 42-year-old man with Brugada syndrome (BRS) mimicking acute coronary syndrome. Chest pain, near-syncope, and electrocardiographic changes were thought initially to be due to ischemia. Cardiac catheterization was performed. The coronary arteries and left ventricular function were normal.
Samir Edward, Yousef, John M, Herre
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Acute coronary syndromes

Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, 2002
Matt, Bishop, Luz, Taylor, Katy, Vorster
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