Abstract
The diagnosis of patients with acute chest pain remains a challenging problem. There are approximately 6 million chest pain related emergency department (ED) visits annually in the US alone [1]. Approximately 5.3% of all ED patients are seen because of chest pain and reported admission rates are between 30% and 72% for these patients [2]. Only 15–25% of patients presenting with acute chest pain are ultimately diagnosed as having an acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Of those patients who were admitted to the chest pain unit, 44% ultimately had
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