The Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC) recently awarded Porter Adventist Hospital full accreditation status as a Chest Pain Center.

(American Roentgen Ray Society) Using a decision support system for ordering chest CT examinations translates into positive examinations three-quarters of the time, a new study shows.

Using a decision support system for ordering chest CT examinations translates into positive examinations three-quarters of the time, a new study shows. The study, conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, of 93,818 chest CT examinations done with the assistance of a decision support system, found that ...

Chest pain patients educated about their future heart attack risk and involved in deciding care options were more likely than less-aware patients to opt out of stress testing, according to research in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American Heart Association journal. Chest pain, the second most common reason people ...

(American Heart Association) Researchers designed a "decision aid" (visual patient-education tool) for physicians and patients with chest pain to agree on an evaluation without negatively affecting the results of their health care. Those who used the decision aid were more knowledgeable about heart attack risk and treatment options and were ...

(Mayo Clinic) Patients who went to the emergency room with chest pain but were at low risk for a heart attack were less likely to seek more tests after their conditions were explained to them using an educational tool known as a decision aid, a Mayo Clinic study found.

Cardiac computed tomography angiography scans (CT scans that look at the heart) can provide a virtually instant verdict on whether chest pain is from blockage of the coronary arteries.

Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) - a non-invasive way to look inside arteries that supply blood to the heart - can quickly and reliably determine which patients complaining of chest pain at an emergency department can safely be sent home, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 61st ...

A study published early online in JAMA to coincide with its presentation at the American College of Cardiology's annual scientific sessions, reveals that patients with chest pain who received an intravenous solution of glucose-insulin-potassium (GIK) had no reduced risk of progressing to a heart attack and no improved 30-day survival ...

Rhode Island Hospital physicians report that managing chest pain patients within an emergency department chest pain unit by both emergency medicine staff and cardiologists is safe and effective and may lower the use of stress testing.

(JAMA and Archives Journals) Patients experiencing symptoms such as chest pain who received from paramedics an intravenous solution consisting of glucose-insulin-potassium (GIK) had no reduction in the rate of progression to heart attack and no improvement in 30-day survival, although GIK was associated with a lower rate of the composite ...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) A highly detailed CT scan of the heart can safely and quickly rule out the possibility of a heart attack among many patients who come to hospital emergency rooms with chest pain, according to the results of a study that will be presented by ...