My experience was uniformly negative, but don't let that put you off.
> There is a proposal in our hospital to have patients presenting acutely
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> with chest pain directed to a chest pain unit. This will be =
> geographically separated from the Accident and Emergency Department and
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> run by Cardiologists who would supervise Chest Pain Nurse
> Practitioners. =
> It will essentially take all cardiological cases not requiring =
> resuscitation. Does anyone have any experience with such a unit, not =
> just in the context of thrombolysis for AMI but also with regard to the
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> impact on the provision of the wider emergency service? I would be very
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> grateful for any experienced insight. Contact me off list if you wish.
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> (I am aware of the "evidence" in the BMJ this week - 1.6.02).=20
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> Tony Good
> Consultant EP Liverpool.
Best wishes,
Rowley Cottingham
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