I have a long history of complaining about guidelines and their seeming disregard for science and common sense. Therefore, when I sat down to read the most recent AHA guidelines on the evaluation and diagnosis of chest pain, I expected to be disappointed. Honestly, I was pleasantly surprised. It is […]
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Clinician gestalt is one of those terms that people either love or hate. Lovers will point out how, almost every time that it is studied, gestalt is at least as accurate as validated clinical decision tools. Haters will lament the inclusion of gestalt in decision tools like the Well’s score, […]
There are two handouts that cover the literature surrounding the use of exercise stress testing to risk stratify patients in the emergency department. For part one, I am posting, in its entirety, a critically appraised topic I did as a resident research project during my emergency medicine fellowship year. Part 2 […]
In addition to the critically appraised topic in part 1, here are some additional papers on stress testing worth knowing about.