Providing Rapid Out of Hospital Acute Cardiovascular Treatment 4 (PROACT‐4)

A. Ezekowitz, Justin; C. Welsh, Robert; Weiss, Dale; Chan, Michael; Keeble, William; Khadour, Fadi; Sharma, Sanjay; Tymchak, Wayne; Sookram, Sunil; Brass, Neil; Knapp, D.; L. Koshy, Thomas; Zheng, Yinggan; W. Armstrong, Paul

doi:10.1161/jaha.115.002859

Public

Providing Rapid Out of Hospital Acute Cardiovascular Treatment 4 (PROACT‐4)

Published in Journal of the American Heart Association • Dec 1, 2015

Authors:

Justin A. Ezekowitz

Robert C. Welsh

Dale Weiss

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Whether prehospital point-of-care (POC) troponin further accelerates the time to diagnosis in patients with chest pain (CP) is unknown. We conducted a randomized trial of POC-Troponin testing in the ambulance. METHODS AND RESULTS: Patients with chest pain presenting by ambulance were ran...

Subject

Medicine

Troponin

Chest pain

Research Assistant

AI chat, annotations, notes & similar papers

Finding related papers...

Discussions

(0)

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!