E-Journal of the Society of Chest Pain Centers

Spring 2001

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Acute coronary syndrome care: emergency department strategies
  Alan Storrow, M.D.
  
• Acute coronary syndromes: introducing new therapies into established guidelines
  Christopher Granger, M.D. Dr.
  
• Attack programs in chest pain centers
  Robert L. Jesse, M.D., Ph.D.
  
• Biochemical markers and the era of troponin
  Robert H. Christenson, Ph.D., DABCC, FACB
  
• Chest pain centers in Brazil
  Roberto Bassan, M.D.
  
• Cardiac time-insensitive predictive instruments (TIPIs): real-time emergency clinical decision aids and tools for the retrospective assessment of care
  Harry P. Selker, M.D., MSPH
  
• The changing reimbursement pathways in emergency department chest pain centers for patients with acute coronary syndrome
  Sandra Sieck, R.N., BBA
  
• Cyclic coronary flow: defining preinfarction angina at the crossroads of unstable angina and myocardial infarction
  Mitchell W. Krucoff, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.C.C.P.
  
• The effects of combined thrombolytic and platelet inhibitor therapy on myocardial and microvascular perfusion
  James de Lemos, M.D.
  
• Electron beam computed tomography in chest pain centers
  James K. McCord, M.D.
  
• Emergency department perfusion imaging for suspected coronary artery disease: The ERASE Chest Pain Trial
  James E. Udelson, M.D., and Ethan J. Spiegler, M.D.