ACEP E-QUAL 20: Chest Pain Protocols & Coordinated Care Pathways

Dr. Erik Hess, Dr. W. Franklin Peacock, and Dr. Simon Mahler discuss complex issues involving chest pain protocols in "ruling-out" low risk chest pain patients. They tackle the issues of:

1. Troponin-Only Pathway: The Era of High Sensitivity Troponins (Hess)
2. Importance of Incorporating Accelerated Diagnostic Protocols (Peacock)
3. How to Get Buy-In and Implement ADPs in the Emergency Department (Mahler)

Dr. Hess is the Vice Chair in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Alabama. Dr. Peacock is the Vice Chair in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Baylor University. Dr. Mahler if the Director of Clinical Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Wake Forest University. 

Host: Dr. Jason Woods; Podcast Sound Engineer: Kellen Vu

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