2021 AHA/ACC/ASE/CHEST/SAEM/SCCT/SCMR Guideline for the Evaluation and Diagnosis of Chest Pain: Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines

• Published in: Journal of the American College of Cardiology Vol. 78; no. 22; p. 2218
• Main Authors: Gulati, Martha, Levy, Phillip D, Mukherjee, Debabrata, Amsterdam, Ezra, Bhatt, Deepak L, Birtcher, Kim K, Blankstein, Ron, Boyd, Jack, Bullock-Palmer, Renee P, Conejo, Theresa, Diercks, Deborah B, Gentile, Federico, Greenwood, John P, Hess, Erik P, Hollenberg, Steven M, Jaber, Wael A, Jneid, Hani, Joglar, José A, Morrow, David A, O'Connor, Robert E, Ross, Michael A, Shaw, Leslee J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 30.11.2021
• Subjects: American Heart Association; Cardiology - standards; Chest Pain - diagnosis; Emergency Service, Hospital - standards; Humans; Research Report; Societies, Medical; United States; United States; ACC/AHA Clinical Practice Guidelines; coronary artery disease; angina; biomarkers; cardiac imaging; myocardial infarction; accelerated diagnostic pathway; shared-decision making; noncardiac; chest pain syndromes; acute coronary syndrome; myocardial injury; noncardiac chest pain; chest pain; myocardial ischemia; troponins; clinical decision pathway; sex differences

This executive summary of the clinical practice guideline for the evaluation and diagnosis of chest pain provides recommendations and algorithms for clinicians to assess and diagnose chest pain in adult patients. A comprehensive literature search was conducted from November 11, 2017, to May 1, 2020,...