Patients who present with chest pain are commonly seen in the emergency department.
Every day, people who are worried that they may be having a myocardial infarction
present to the emergency department. In fact, after abdominal pain, chest pain is
the second most common reason to come to the emergency department.
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The process of establishing the seriousness of symptoms and determining how quickly
the patient needs immediate medical treatment is called “triage.” Often, triage nurses
use an emergency severity index algorithm to assist in determining the seriousness
of symptoms. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, in a comparison
of data from 2000 with data from 2008, there was a 12.4% decrease in triaged acuity
(emergent to immediate) of persons presenting to the emergency department with acute
chest pain.
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Biography
Kathryn Lynn Miley, Member, Indiana ENA Roadrunners Chapter 134, is Board-Certified Family Nurse Practitioner and Board-Certified Emergency Nurse Practitioner, Emergency Department at St Elizabeth, and EmCare, Lafayette, IN.
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Accepted:
May 20,
2014
Received in revised form:
May 4,
2014
Received:
January 19,
2012
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