Open AccessAcute Chest Pain Evaluated by Coronary CT Angiography
Author(s) -
Richard Conti C.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
clinical cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.263
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1932-8737
pISSN - 0160-9289
DOI - 10.1002/clc.20686
Subject(s) - medicine , chest pain , emergency department , coronary angiography , acute coronary syndrome , emergency medicine , angiography , cardiology , radiology , myocardial infarction , psychiatry
Most of my time these days (at least 26 weeks out of every year) is spent on an inpatient cardiology service. Patients are general cardiology patients, mostly admitted from our emergency department (ED). Approximately half of these patients have a principle diagnosis of acute chest pain. Copyright © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.