Status:
COMPLETED
Acute Chest Pain Treatment and Evaluation (ACTION) Study
Lead Sponsor:
Singapore General Hospital
Collaborating Sponsors:
National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore
National Heart Centre Singapore
Conditions:
Chest Pain
Eligibility:
All Genders
25+ years
Phase:
PHASE4
Brief Summary
Objective 1. To compare the incidence of adverse cardiac events among the patients discharged after evaluation through ACTION protocol with those through conventional protocol. The adverse cardiac ev...
Detailed Description
Identifying the cause of chest pain is a challenge to the Emergency Physician.Coronary artery disease is the most common group of Emergencies that has a high potential for rapidly developing a lethal ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- 25 years and above
- Chest pain suggestive of the angina
- 12 leads ECG non-diagnostic for myocardial ischaemia or AMI
- diabetes mellitus
- family history of young AMI (less than 50 years old) There is no lower limit of age for those patients in the last two categories
Exclusion
- ECG diagnostic of AMI or acute myocardial ischaemia (as defined by the new Q wave , ST elevation or depression greater than 1mm or 0.1 millivolts in two or more contiguous leads)
- Congestive heart failure or hypotensive patients
- Persistent chest pain consistent with unstable angina
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
August 1 2000
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
End Date :
May 1 2002
Estimated Enrollment :
1690 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00434564
Start Date
August 1 2000
End Date
May 1 2002
Last Update
February 10 2017
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Singapore General Hospital
Singapore, Singapore