title: Assessment of the patient with chest pain in the accident and emergency department.
abstract: This article will review measures enabling emergency staff to identify patients with chest pain who are likely to need admission to a cardiac care unit, in particular those with manifestations of acute ischaemic heart disease--acute myocardial infarction and unstable angina. Other non-cardiac causes of chest pain will also be discussed.
authors.affiliation: Evidence Supported Medicine Union, Birmingham, UK.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Quinn
mesh_terms: D002637:Chest Pain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000451:nursing; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D016529:Emergency Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D010343:Patient Admission; D013997:Time Factors