Nursing

Intensive care medicine

Emergency medicine

Health care

Triage

Position paper

Acute coronary syndrome

Cardiology

Economics

Medical emergency

Anesthesia

Risk stratification

Emergency department

Political science

Acute care

Myocardial infarction

Internal medicine

Chest pain

Public administration

Medicine

Economic growth

Acute pain

Task force

Pathology

European Heart Journal Acute Cardiovascular Care

This paper provides an update on the European Society of Cardiology task force report on the management of chest pain. Its main purpose is to provide an update on the decision algorithms and diagnostic pathways to be used in the emergency department for the assessment and triage of patients with chest pain symptoms suggestive of acute coronary syndromes.

Diagnosis and risk stratification of chest pain patients in the emergency department: focus on acute coronary syndromes. A position paper of the Acute Cardiovascular Care Association