1. Epidemiology and Demographics of Coronary Artery Disease
Shahriar Dadkhah, MD, FACP, FACC Korosh Sharain, MA
2. Financial Impact of Acute Coronary Syndromes
Sandra Sieck, RN, MBA, Chris Baugh, MD FACEP
3. Billing for Short Stay Chest Pain services
Mike Granovsky, MD, FACEP
4. Why have Chest Pain Patients in a Short Stay Unit?
Michael A. Ross, MD FACEP, FACC, Raymond Bahr, MD, FACC
5. What is the Value of Accreditation in Cardiology?
David Winchester, MD, FACC, Deepak Bhatt, MD, FACC
6. Pathophysiology and Definition of Acute Coronary Syndromes
Ezra A. Amsterdam, MD, Deborah Diercks, MD J. Douglas Kirk, MD, FACEP
7. Emergency Department Presentation of Chest Pain
Jeffrey A. Holmes, MD Sean Collins, MD, MSc
8. Chest Pain Risk Stratification by History, Physical, and EKG
Alan B. Storrow, MD, Ian McClure, MD, Elizabeth Harbison, MD
Jason Stopyra
9. The Role of Biomarkers Chest Pain Evaluation
Robert H. Christenson, Ph.D., DABCC, FACB, Phil Levy, MD, FACEP, FACC, Kristin Newby, MD, FACC
10. Are Risk Scoring Systems Necessary?
Judd E. Hollander, MD, FACEP Anna Marie Chang, MD
11. Emergency Department Disposition of Patients Presenting with Chest Pain
Kelly Owens, MD Deborah B. Diercks, MD, MSc
12. Short Stay Unit Requirements
Matt Wheatley, MD FACEP, Steve Deitelzweig, MD, FACP
13. Medical Therapy of Chest Pain Patients Managed in a Short Stay Unit
James McCord, MD, FACC, David Lanfear, MD, FACC
14. Provocative Testing for the Evaluation of Patients with Chest Pain
J. Douglas Kirk, MD, FACEP Michael C. Kontos, MD Ezra A. Amsterdam, MD
15. Use of Multi-slice CT for the Evaluation of Patients with Chest Pain
Brian O’Neil, MD FACEP Michael J. Gallagher, M.D Gilbert L. Raff, MD, FACC
16. Use of MRI for the Evaluation of Patients with Chest Pain
Brian O’Neil, MD FACEP Michael J. Gallagher, M.D Gilbert L. Raff, MD, FACC
17. New Technologies for the Evaluation of Acute Coronary Syndromes: Magnetocardiography
Peter M. Hill, MD
18. Disposition from the Short Stay Unit
Chris A Ghaemmaghami, MD William J. Brady, MD, Brian Hiestand, MD FACEP
19. Examples of Short Stay Chest Pain Protocols, Order Sheets and Discharge Instructions
Lauren T. Southerland, MD
