External validation of the Manchester Acute Coronary Syndromes ECG risk model within a pre-hospital setting
Conclusion
Neither MACS-ECG nor paramedic ECG interpretation had a sufficiently high PPV or NPV to ‘rule in’ or ‘rule out’ NSTEMI alone.
Source: Emergency Medicine Journal - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Alotaibi, A., Alghamdi, A., Martin, G. P., Carlton, E., Cooper, J. G., Cook, E., Siriwardena, A. N., Phillips, J., Thompson, A., Bell, S., Kirby, K. L., Rosser, A., Pennington, E., Body, R. Tags: Open access Original research Source Type: research
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