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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A “CT first” strategy was tied to higher revascularization rates vs. other tests for chest pain. CABG or PCI was ...

Women and people of color 55 and younger tend to face longer wait times than white men when they go to the emergency room seeking help for chest pain, according to a new data analysis published ...

Younger women and African American adults experiencing chest pain wait longer to get care in the emergency room than their respective male and white counterparts, research shows. According to the ...

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 ...