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12/16/07
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CT Scans To Determine Heart Disease In The Emergency Room
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ScienceDaily (Nov. 29, 2007) — In the future, patients who arrive at a hospital Emergency Department complaining of chest pain may be diagnosed with a sophisticated CT scan. If the diagnosis is negative, the patient can go home — and the total time at the hospital will be much shorter than it is today.
---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- See also: Health & Medicine Today's Healthcare Workplace Health Multiple Sclerosis Research Matter & Energy Weapons Technology Chemistry Aviation Reference Physical trauma Oxygen therapy Nuclear medicine Palliative care That is the theory behind a study being presented at the RSNA November 26 by Rajan Agarwal, M.D., a resident in Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. “The cost of chest pain triage (where patients in the Emergency Department are prioritized based on their symptoms) and management has been estimated to be as high as $8 billion annuall Read the Complete Article Similar content: TIA: It's an Emergency, in Stroke New Emergency Seizure Treatment for Children, in Epilepsy Implementation Strategies for Emergency Medical Services Within Stroke Systems of Care, in Stroke Rise in CT Scans Poses Cancer Risk, in Leukemia Repeat Bone Density Scans Not as Useful as Thought, in Arthritis |
