I have dedicated a number of posts to the workup of low risk chest pain. There is the 5 part series demonstrating that our use of stress tests doesn’t make any sense. There is also a post demonstrating that CCTA has no role in these patients at this time. One […]
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There is no perfect study of stress testing. There are no RCTs of stress testing in emergency department patients, so we cannot say with certainty whether they help or hurt. The studies describing test characteristics are also imperfect. Partly, that is because people try to use stress tests to identify […]
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.