Relationship Between Physiological Parameters and Acute Coronary Syndrome in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Undifferentiated Chest Pain.

CONCLUSIONS:: Patients with abnormal temperature or SBP were slightly more likely to have ACS, but such risk was of too small a magnitude to be useful in clinical decision making. Other physiological parameters (heart rate and respiratory rate) had no prognostic value. The use of physiological parameters cannot reliably confirm or rule out ACS.
PMID: 25658187 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing - February 5, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Greenslade JH, Beamish D, Parsonage W, Hawkins T, Schluter J, Dalton E, Parker K, Than M, Hammett C, Lamanna A, Cullen L Tags: J Cardiovasc Nurs Source Type: research