Management of acute coronary syndrome in emergency departments: a cross sectional multicenter study (Tunisia)

BMC Emergency Medicine

Table 1 Chest pain characteristics (n = 1173): February– September; 2015

	N	%	Age (years) Median (QR)	Sex-ratio
All chest pain	1173	100	58 (49–68)	1.81
Cause of chest pain
Cardiac n (%)	589	51.71
Acute coronary syndrome	566	49.69	60 (52–70)	2.07
STEMI	146		60 (52–68)	3.55
UA/NSTEMI	420		60 (52–70)	1.75
Aortic dissection	2	0.18	72	2
Pulmonary embolism	7	0.61	75 (34–80)	0.4
Pericarditis/Tamponade	14	1.23	52 (39–67.5)	2.5
Non-cardiac causes n (%)	550	48.29
Pneumothorax	9	0.79	34 (31–46)	8
Pleurisy	15	1.32	61 (55–78)	1.5
Osteochondritis	35	3.07	62 (58–75)	1.69
Neuralgia of intercostal nerve	149	13.08	53 (45–63.75)	2.36
Digestive pathology	45	3.95	59 (46–73.5)	1.05
Psycho-pathologic disease	106	9.31	51 (39.75–60)	1.08
Irrelevant cause	191	16.77	58 (48–71)	1.58

QR quartile range, UA/NSTEMI unstable angina/non-ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction, STEMI ST segment elevation myocardial infarction
Legend: The half of patient consulting emergency departments for chest pain were diagnosed as acute coronary syndrome especially UA/NSTEMI

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