Clinical review: managing chest pain of recent onset
Keywords:
Clinical Review, Chest Pain
Abstract
A patient may present with either acute chest pain (a suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS) or stable recurrent chest pain (angina). If the patient is currently in pain, or has had pain in the last 12 hours, they may have an ACS. The first and most important part of the history is to distinguish between possible cardiac causes of chest pain and non-cardiac causes.