Several years in development and beset by delays, guidelines out today from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (ACC/AHA), in conjunction with several other societies ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For the first time, the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical ...

The American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) have issued a set of data standards for chest pain and acute myocardial infarction (MI) to accompany last year's guidelines ...

Clinicians should use standardized risk assessments, clinical pathways, and tools to evaluate and communicate with patients who present with chest pain (angina), advises a joint clinical practice ...

Guidelines on the evaluation and diagnosis of stable chest pain put out last year by the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) may have endorsed the use of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The inaugural chest pain guideline, from the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association, ...

The document, published Aug. 30 in the AHA’s journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, standardized data elements for consistent reporting on chest pain cases and established new ...

Chest pain is one of the leading reasons for adult emergency room visits in the United States, accounting for more than 7 million visits annually. Properly identifying and treating dangerous and ...

In some U.S. emergency departments (EDs), the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 0/1-hour troponin algorithm has shown uniquely poor performance ruling out cardiac events in patients presenting with ...

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Chest pain can indicate an injury to your ribcage, surrounding muscles, or connective tissue. Pulled muscles, fractured ribs, and arthritis are all potential causes. Your musculoskeletal system ...