Skip to main content
Clinical Trials/NL-OMON39354
NL-OMON39354
Completed
Not Applicable

Better Evaluation of Acute Chest Pain With Computed Tomography * a Randomized Prospective Trial - BEACON trial

Overview

Phase
Not Applicable
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
Not specified
Sponsor
Erasmus MC, Universitair Medisch Centrum Rotterdam
Enrollment
500
Status
Completed
Last Updated
2 years ago

Overview

Brief Summary

No summary available.

Registry
who.int
Start Date
TBD
End Date
TBD
Last Updated
2 years ago
Study Type
Interventional

Investigators

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • Acute chest pain or equivalent possibly caused by coronary artery disease. Age \>30 years, ability and willingness to provide informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria

  • History of significant CAD, defined as prior myocardial infarction, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery.
  • Very low likelihood of an ACS, based on demographics, risk factors and
  • presentation (normal ECG and initial markers), without clinical requirement for observation or further investigation.
  • Very high\-risk ACS with need for immediate coronary angiography (\<90 minutes), according to clinical guidelines.
  • Troponins \> 0\.1, high risk patients who will require early invasive angiography (\<48 hrs).
  • Clinical instability: clinical heart failure and hemodynamic instability
  • Contra\-indications to CT: kidney failure, allergic reactions to contrast media, pregnancy

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Not specified

Similar Trials