Optimizing Chest Pain Care: Implementing Rapid Point-of-Care Cardiovascular Diagnostic Testing into Your Workflow

Navigating the Complexities of Cardiac Diagnostics

Chest pain is a common presentation to the emergency department and the most common reason for observation hospital admissions. Providers caring for patients with acute chest pain must determine whether the patient has acute coronary syndrome (ACS) or another life-threatening condition associated with high mortality, morbidity, and malpractice risk.

Fear of missing these conditions leads many providers to over-test patients with chest pain, costing over $13 billion each year and crowding emergency departments and hospital wards. However, it is estimated that 2% to 4% of patients with ACS are initially missed, which can be due to an atypical presentation that leads to under-testing.

This webinar will discuss approaches to improve chest pain risk stratification using point-of-care diagnostics. Specifically, we will discuss high-sensitivity troponin, D-dimer, and natriuretic peptide biomarker testing and the advantages of point-of-care testing. This will include discussion of evidence-based algorithms that can be used to integrate these point-of-care biomarkers into the emergency department workflow.

Learning Objectives

This webinar will help you:

• Identify the current challenges and inefficiencies of emergency department chest pain risk stratification
• Discuss how cardiovascular point-of-care diagnostics can improve chest pain care
• Describe the advantages of point-of-care high-sensitivity troponin and considerations for how to best implement them into emergency department workflows
• Analyze the utility of point-of-care D-dimer and natriuretic peptide testing

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For research use only. Not for diagnostic procedures.

Fisher Healthcare is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.™ Program. One P.A.C.E.™ credit-hour will be provided for this complimentary basic level program.

Simon A. Mahler, MD, MS, FACEP, Wake Forest School of Medicine

Simon A. Mahler, MD, MS, is a professor and vice chair of clinical research for the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. He completed a Master of Science in Clinical and Population Translational Sciences at Wake Forest University and a T-32 mentored research program in Quality Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease. Dr. Mahler has led several important clinical trials examining care pathways for patients with acute chest pain and is widely recognized as an expert in the risk stratification of emergency department patients with possible acute coronary syndrome.