New myocardial infarction test will free up thousands of beds
A simple blood test can rule out risk of myocardial infarction in a large portion of patients who present to the emergency room for chest pain, according to a new study carried out by Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet. The study was presented in 2014 at a large cardiology conference in Washington D.C. Thanks to the reliability of the blood test, hospitalization will be unnecessary for thousands of patients, allowing substantial healthcare resources to be freed up for other patients. On a global scale, hospitalization will be unnecessary for millions of patients in the
