DuPont's Cardiolite
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Investigators in the 2,456-patient Emergency Room Assessment of Sestamibi for Evaluation of chest pain (ERASE Chest Pain) study report that the Cardiolite test, as part of a chest pain evaluation protocol in the emergency room, can effectively differentiate patients suffering heart attack and in need of intensive cardiac care from those who are not. The data were presented Nov. 9 at the American Heart Association's scientific sessions in Atlanta. Funded by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, the study shows that such screening could lead to as much as a 20% reduction in the unnecessary admission rate of patients not in need of cardiac care