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Likelihood Ratio (LR) in Emergency Medicine
Showing posts with label MPI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MPI. Show all posts

5/01/2012

How LR works. Why any test is unnecessary for a patient with very low-risk chest pain ?

A 40 yo truck driver, presented in ED with substernal chest pain. He is healthy, no family history of CAD. Held for observation, serial ECG have not modified, not elevated troponin.






Is an Exercise Treadmill Testing useful (ETT)? Or a Myocardial Perfusion Imaging (MPI) is better ?

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