Validation of a Brief Observation Period for Patients with Cocaine-Associated Chest Pain
- 6 February 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 348 (6), 510-517
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa022206
Abstract
Retrospective studies of patients with cocaine-associated chest pain suggest that a strategy of discharging patients from the emergency department after a 12-hour observation period if they do not have evidence of ischemia should be associated with a very low rate of complications.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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