Exercise treadmill testing for chest pain: Tips for referring the right patients

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Exercise treadmill testing for chest pain: Tips for referring the right patients

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Patients are being referred for exercise treadmill testing when they cannot complete one

Assessing chest pain and deciding who should be referred to an emergency department or cardiology service are challenging aspects of primary care. This article provides an overview of the testing, selection and referral of patients for exercise treadmill testing

Chest pain presentations to the emergency depart­ment are common; however, more than 80 per cent are found not to have myocardial infarc­tion, so a ra