Physicians' Awareness of ECG Abnormalities Linked to Acute Ischemic Chest Pain

Tanta University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Acute Ischemic Chest Pain; ECG Abnormalities; Awareness; Physicians

Treatments: Other: Google Form-based questionnaire

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06836466

36264PR955/11/24

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to investigate physicians' awareness regarding patients presenting with potential acute ischemic chest pain. It focuses on various electrocardiogram (ECG) patterns requiring prompt catheter lab activation for reperfusion therapy alongside other ECG mimics that may lead to false catheter lab activations.

Full description

Chest pain is the second most common complaint in adult emergency department (ED) patients in the United States. Most visits result in a diagnosis of noncardiac chest pain and approximately half in nonspecific chest pain. Roughly 6% are ultimately diagnosed with a life-threatening condition, which is overwhelmingly (>90%) acute coronary syndrome (ACS).

The term acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is applied to patients in whom there is a suspicion or confirmation of acute myocardial ischemia or infarction. ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), Non-ST-elevation MI (NSTEMI), and unstable angina are the three traditional types of ACS.

Enrollment: 640 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age from 25 to 65 years.
• Both sexes.
• Physicians who treat patients with possible acute chest pain.

Exclusion criteria

- Participants who failed to complete the survey questions.

Trial design

640 participants in 1 patient group

Group 1

Description:

All physicians are subjected to 10 ECGs Surves

Treatment:

Other: Google Form-based questionnaire