Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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Acad Emerg Med
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Multicenter Study
Emergency department CK-MB: a predictor of ischemic complications. National cooperative CK-MB project group.
To demonstrate that a positive CK-MB in the emergency department (ED) predicts an increased risk for complications of myocardial ischemia in patients admitted to the hospital for evaluation of chest pain. ⋯ Multicenter data support the hypothesis that CK-MB measurements can help risk-stratify ED chest pain patients whose initial ECGs are without diagnostic ST-segment elevation.