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Strategy for discharges from the stress test laboratory for ambulatory patients with chest pain/dyspnea in COVID-19 times
- Source :
- Heart and Mind, Vol 5, Iss 3, Pp 95-97 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2021.
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Abstract
- Introduction: To reduce contacts during the COVID-19 pandemic, we elaborated a protocol for ambulatory referrals for exercise testing that included discharges from the stress test laboratory (STL). Methods and Results: From 403 patients referred for chest pain (68%) or dyspnea (32%), 219 were straight discharged from the STL (54%), without findings of coronary artery disease in 192 (88%), whereas in 120 (29.5%), further visits were recommended. Medical treatment was modified after the tests in 116 patients (29%). Conclusions: A strategy consisting of discharge from the STL for patients with negative/spurious stress test results, making therapeutic recommendations, seems feasible, effective, and overall opportune in the current situation.
- Subjects :
- Environmental Engineering
Medical treatment
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
business.industry
stress echocardiography
medicine.disease
Chest pain
Exercise electrocardiography
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
exercise electrocardiography
Coronary artery disease
covid-19
Stress test
Anesthesia
RC666-701
Ambulatory
Stress Echocardiography
Medicine
Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
medicine.symptom
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 24686484 and 24686476
- Volume :
- 5
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Heart and Mind
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e1dc14ee0ee018d74a0209cbc1f92133