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Manchester Royal Infirmary have a 6 hour chest pain assessment unit up and running. I think acute exercise testing is used for patients equivocal at the end of 6 hours. I trhink this is the Manchester hospital Ffion refers to. If you need to know the exact people to contact mail me directly. The work is (hopefully) to be published soon (ish). Simon Carley Anaesthetics / Intensive Care Stepping Hill Hospital Stockport England [log in to unmask] ---------- > From: pmartin <[log in to unmask]> > To: INTERNET:[log in to unmask] > Subject: cardiac chest pain > Date: 15 September 1998 20:54 > > Steve, > > There are 2 hospitals in Mersey doing some form of rapid chest pain > assessment at the moment. > One is assaying troponin T levels 12 hours after pain onset, with other > various criteria (pain, ECG etc) to exclude those not to be sent home. > The other (along with a Manchester hospital) is doing continuous 12-lead ST > monitoring for 6 hours and CKMB mass. > Neither is doing acute exercise testing. > I can let you or other list members know the people involved, so you can > communicate directly, if you would like to mail me personally. Both are > part of ongoing audit / research projects. > I suspect in most hospitals, it won't be easy to 'queue-jump' into urgent > exercise testing slots. > > Ffion Davies > (A&E SpR) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%