RT - Journal Article T1 - Assessment of the Role of Bedside Echocardiography in Predicting One-Month Outcome of the Patients with Low Risk Unstable Angina JF - RJMS YR - 2008 JO - RJMS VO - 15 IS - 0 UR - http://rjms.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1015-en.html SP - 125 EP - 130 K1 - 1) Chest Pain 2) Echocardiography 3) Low Risk Unstable Angina AB - Background & Aim: departments. Low risk patients can be discharged and receive outpatient treatment if clinical and paraclinical assays arenormal. The recommended pre-discharge evaluations are controversial. However, because of the availability and safety ofbedside echocardiography in emergency departments, we decided to conduct this study.Unstable angina accounts for about 30% of cardiovascular patients referred to emergencyPatients and Method: unstable angina and admitted to the Emergency Department of Hazrat Rasoul-e-Akram Hospital. All of the casesunderwent bedside echocardiography before their discharge. Calling the patients one month after their discharge, theiroutcomes were recorded. Then we made a comparison between echocardiographic findings and their one-monthoutcomes. The data were analyzed via SPSS software using statistical tests such as Fisher, Chi-square and t-test.This cohort study was done on 140 patients with chest pain who were diagnosed with low riskResults: cases) were male. The patients with abnormal echocardiographic findings, i.e. EF(Ejection Fraction) LA eng UL http://rjms.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1015-en.html M3 ER -