{"id":4029,"date":"2015-04-13T12:10:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T17:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4029"},"modified":"2015-04-12T15:41:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T20:41:13","slug":"a-new-test-to-confirm-heart-attacks-within-one-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/a-new-test-to-confirm-heart-attacks-within-one-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"A new test to confirm heart attacks within one hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study has shown a new test can almost always determine if a patient suffered a heart attack within the first hour of it occurring.<\/p>\n<p>The study examined 1320 patients presenting to emergency departments and accurately diagnosed 75 per cent of the patients. The remaining 318 patients were placed in the \u201cobservational zone\u201d, and 59 were later diagnosed with a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>The test only missed one patient whose initial diagnosis was determined to be incorrect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmaj.ca\/lookup\/doi\/10.1503\/cmaj.141349\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>CMAJ\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>April\u00a013<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">Dr. Tobias Reichlin, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland<\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">Christian Mueller, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study has shown a new test can almost always determine if a patient suffered a heart attack within the first hour of it occurring. The study examined 1320 patients presenting to emergency departments and accurately diagnosed 75 per cent of the patients. The remaining 318 patients were placed in the \u201cobservational zone\u201d, and 59 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[51,1990,2411,53,476],"class_list":["post-4029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-health","tag-heart","tag-heart-attack","tag-medicine","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-12Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4030,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions\/4030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}