Sentences with phrase «evaluated for chest pain»
Nationwide, the overwhelming majority of patients evaluated for chest pain in the ER get such extra tests, Brown said.
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«Our study suggests that in the emergency room, stress testing and CT scans are unnecessary for evaluating chest pain in possible heart attack patients,» said cardiologist and senior author David L. Brown, MD, a professor of medicine.
«The goal of evaluating patients with chest pain in the ER is not to screen for coronary artery disease,» he said.
«We were looking at the optimum way to evaluate people with chest pain and focusing on those patients who are generally older, have many risk factors for coronary disease or may have had prior health problems, basically the intermediate to higher risk population,» Miller said.