Stress Test Algorithm?

[needsmore$]

hi everyone. does anyone have an algorithm already in place for determining when you would do a stress test and which variety, on a patient that presents to the ed with chest pain?

we are developing a chest pain center and although we have guidelines galore- i was hoping for an already made, pretty picture stress test algorithm that we could...share, or adopt.

seriously-- any help out there?

and have a good weekend and for those of us working-- hope it's a good one too

[BBFRN, BSN, PhD]

http://www.aafp.org/afp/20070415/1219.pdf

Was this what you were looking for? See pg 3 of 10 in the document.

[BBFRN, BSN, PhD]

http://www.acc.org/qualityandscience/clinical/guidelines/stemi/guideline1/Images/figure36.jpg

Here's another one for cath vs. stress test.

[needsmore$]

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[BBFRN, BSN, PhD]

Yvw :).