ACTRN12610000053022
Completed
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In patients presenting to the emergency department with potential acute coroanry syndrome (ACS) is there a difference in the change in troponin (absolute and rate) and a traditional mulitmarker approach with risk stratification tools in excluding significant coronary artery disease?
Queensland Emergency Medicine Research Foundation0 sites1,000 target enrollmentJanuary 18, 2010
Overview
- Phase
- 未知
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Acute coronary syndromes
- Sponsor
- Queensland Emergency Medicine Research Foundation
- Enrollment
- 1000
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 6 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
No summary available.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Inclusion criteria include all patients who present to the ED with at least 5 minutes of chest pain suggestive of ACS. In accord with American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines, these will include the presence of acute chest, epigastric, neck, jaw or arm pain or discomfort or pressure or breathlessness without apparent non\-cardiac source. More general/atypical symptoms (such as fatigue, nausea, vomiting, sweating and faintness) will not be used as inclusion criteria.
- •Patients who have chest discomfort and in whom the attending staff consider it necessary to perform an electrocardiogram (ECG) for the assessment of possible ACS will be enrolled.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Patients under the age of 18 years old
- •Unable or unwilling to consent
- •Patients for whom follow\-up will not be possible either due to lack of contact address or because they will be overseas.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Not specified
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