Emergency Physicians' HEART score calculations and those of cardiology were not the same.  EM scored the history as suspicious more often.

This study suggests that in hypertensive patients with acute decompensated heart failure and shortness of breath, bolus IV NTG 1 or 2 mg was safe and reduced ICU admission and length of stay.

Unstructured physician gestalt of "low risk" or a TIMI score of zero and 2 negative standard troponin assays resulted in zero patients with missed AMI during the index visit to the ED for chest pain.

Sgarbossa criteria can help interpret the ECG for STEMI in the setting of LBBB.  Subsequent modifications make it even more accurate.

Patients with sudden cardiac arrest often had symptoms of chest pain or dyspnea in the 24 hours prior to arrest.

Acutely dyspneic patients in the ED can be more accurately diagnosed by adding BNP to clinical judgment.

Patients with a HEART score of 0-3 were very low risk for MACE (1.7%) and may be considered safe for early ED discharge.

DANAMI-2 showed that if door to needle time was <120 minutes, transfer for PCI was superior to on-site fibrinolysis for acute MI.

New a-fib is associated with increased mortality in sepsis patients.  These patients may benefit from restoration of normal sinus rhythm.

If a young person presents with chest pain and has had prior treatment for cancer, his or her risk of cardiac disease is far greater than the baseline population.