title: Chest pain in the emergency department.
abstract: The assessment of patients with chest pain is challenging for any emergency physician because of the spectrum of illness covered by this symptom. Patients may have a serious life-threatening condition or a trivial self-limiting illness. This article presents an approach to the assessment and early management of patients presenting with acute non-traumatic chest pain in the emergency department.
authors.affiliation: Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Hodgkinson
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Oliver
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006801:Humans; D008487:Medical History Taking / Q000379:methods; D010147:Pain Measurement; D014218:Triage