Chest pain evaluation[html] Summary: This calculator is intended to help guide evaluation for chest pain in regards to the likelihood of non-cardiac causes.[/html] [select name="Q1" value="no=0|YES=1"] <-- Male 55 years or over/Female 65 or over [select name="Q2" value="no=0|YES=1"] <-- Known CAD or cerebrovascular disease [select name="Q3" value="no=0|YES=1"] <-- Pain not reproducible by palpation [select name="Q4" value="no=0|YES=1"] <-- Pain worse during exercise [select name="Q5" value="no=0|YES=1"] <-- Patient assumes pain is cardiogenic Score --> [calc value="score=(Q1)+(Q2)+(Q3)+(Q4)+(Q5)" memo="score"] out of 5. Interpretation --> [calc value="score=(Q1)+(Q2)+(Q3)+(Q4)+(Q5);score>3?'High (62.7%) risk, proceed with ACS evaluation.':score>1?'Moderate (12.1%) risk, obtain ECG and proceed with ACS or other evaluations as indicated.':'Low (0.6%) risk, if no other indication of cardiac cause, evaluate for non-cardiac causes.'" memo="interpretation"] [html]<hr>[/html][checkbox memo="display/hide references" name="footnotes" value=""][conditional field="footnotes" condition="(footnotes).is('')"][html] reference: AAFP Point-of-Care Guide at <a href="http://www.aafp.org/afp/poc" target="_blank">>Ebell (2011) Am Fam Physician 83: 603-5</a>.[/html][/conditional]
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