title: Triaging patients with acute chest pain in the emergency department: implications of the CT-STAT trial.
abstract: Rapid advancements in multidetector-row computed tomography scanner technology over the last decade have significantly improved the diagnostic performance of coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA), enabling it to potentially become the preferred imaging modality used in the rapid assessment of chest pain patients in the emergency department. There is a growing body of evidence suggesting coronary CTA can rule out coronary artery stenosis quickly and accurately, thereby reducing the number of hospitalizations and healthcare costs, without compromising quality of care. CT-STAT is the first multicenter trial to demonstrate the power of coronary CTA to streamline patient care in the acute setting and radically transform current treatment algorithms.
authors.affiliation: Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1124 W Carson St, Torrance, CA 90502, USA.
authors.forename: Jennifer M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Malpeso
authors.forename: Matthew J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Budoff