Mary Ellen

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1. misdiagnosis of women with CP

   Mary Ellen replied to anurse's topic in Cardiac

   The majority of people who present to our ED with c/o CP get an EKG and a cardiac lab panel which includes all cardiac markers. If the patient is not having an acute MI, most times they go to my ED sub-dept. which is Chest Pain Obs. Here we do a fas...

2. Does Your ED have a Chest Pain Triage Nurse?

   Mary Ellen posted a topic in Emergency

   Our ED is restructuring. We currently have a 7 bed sub-dept called Chest Pain Observation. This will move to be an extension of CCU to free up more ED beds. There is still a great need for chest pain triage and quick intervention and I want to pr...