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Acute coronary syndrome

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Therapy

Consider admitting your patient to a chest pain observation unit. d  

Why?

  • Patients are not clearly less likely to die or have a cardiovascular event in the next 6 months than those who have routine hospital admission. d

 

 

Expiry date: June 2003
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Authors   CM   Ball , N   Shenker
Reviewer   I K   Jang
CAT Writers   N   Shenker , CJ   Wotton , CM   Ball , RS   Phillips