The acute coronary syndrome—pre-hospital diagnostic quality
| Autor: | Freyja-Maria Smolle-Jüttner, Josef Smolle, Gernot Wildner, K Stoschitzky, G. Gemes, Gerhard Prause, T.J. Fuchs |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Emergency Medical Services
Resuscitation medicine.medical_specialty Acute coronary syndrome Critical Care Coronary Disease Emergency Nursing law.invention Electrocardiography law Intensive care medicine Humans Thrombolytic Therapy Medical history Myocardial infarction Intensive care medicine Quality of Health Care Retrospective Studies business.industry Case-control study Syndrome Emergency department medicine.disease Survival Analysis Intensive care unit Hospitalization Outcome and Process Assessment Health Care Austria Case-Control Studies Acute Disease Emergency medicine Emergency Medicine Emergency Service Hospital Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Resuscitation. 66:323-330 |
| ISSN: | 0300-9572 |
| Popis: | Background and objective: In the Austrian emergency medical service (EMS), emergency medical technician-staffed and physician-staffed vehicles are in operation. Patients with suspected acute coronary syndromes (ACS) are treated in the pre-hospital phase and transported to the hospital by an emergency physician (EP). This study evaluates the diagnostic performance of EPs in ACS and the impact of this emergency system on the outcome of ACS in an urban area. Design: Retrospective case control study. Methods: All protocol sheets from the emergency physicians were searched for the diagnosis of ACS. The database of the emergency department (ED) was searched for patients with ACS as an admission diagnosis or ACS as discharge diagnosis. For patients admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU), the medical history from the ICU was reviewed. According to the diagnosis and the aggressiveness of therapy, patients were divided in five categories of severity at each stage of care (pre-hospital category, ED category, ICU category). Results: A total of 3585 patients was analysed. Only 17.8% of the patients with ACS as the admission diagnosis and 20.3% of the patients with ACS as the discharge diagnosis were transported by an EP. 46.8% of the ACS diagnosis by EPs were confirmed in hospital. Patients transported by EPs showed a higher all-cause mortality in hospital (1.6% vs. 0.6%; p = 0.011). There was no significant correlation between the pre-hospital category of patients treated by EPs and the ED category. When a 12-lead-electrocardiogramm was recorded, the correlation improved slightly (rho: 0.139; p = 0.006). Conclusions: The percentage of ACS patients transported to hospital by an EP is very low, and EPs seem to be “over-aware” in the diagnosis of ACS. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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