[Identification of patients admitted acutely on suspicion of cardiac disease].

Lisette Okkels Jensen, Lene Holmvang, Jakob Lundager Forberg, Dan Brun Petersen, Anne Sejr Knudsen, Christian Juhl Terkelsen

Ugeskrift for Laeger · 2013-01-21 · Other / unclear

PubMed

Abstract

Overall, the future emergency departments in Denmark serve as a single portal of entry for all acute patients. At the same time an expansion of prehospital diagnosing and triage will take place. In patients suspected of life-threatening cardiac conditions with specialized treatment requirements where the time factor is important, the prehospital triage will be important to identify patients who should be transferred directly to a cardiac care unit to reduce prehospital and in-hospital delays of treatment.