NCT06836466

Physicians' Awareness of ECG Abnormalities Linked to Acute Ischemic Chest Pain

Physicians' Awareness of ECG Abnormalities Linked to Acute Ischemic Chest Pain; A Survey Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 640 (actual)
• Sponsor: Tanta University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 25 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to investigate physicians' awareness regarding patients presenting with potential acute ischemic chest pain. It focuses on various electrocardiogram (ECG) patterns requiring prompt catheter lab activation for reperfusion therapy alongside other ECG mimics that may lead to false catheter lab activations.

Detailed description

Chest pain is the second most common complaint in adult emergency department (ED) patients in the United States. Most visits result in a diagnosis of noncardiac chest pain and approximately half in nonspecific chest pain. Roughly 6% are ultimately diagnosed with a life-threatening condition, which is overwhelmingly (\>90%) acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The term acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is applied to patients in whom there is a suspicion or confirmation of acute myocardial ischemia or infarction. ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), Non-ST-elevation MI (NSTEMI), and unstable angina are the three traditional types of ACS.

Conditions

• Physicians
• Awareness
• ECG Abnormalities
• Acute Ischemic Chest Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Google Form-based questionnaire	All participants will consent to submit an anonymous Google Form-based questionnaire. The designed questionnaire includes introductory personal, academic, and work experience data about the physicians as gender, age, current specialty, workplace, highest achieved medical-academic or training degree, and number of years of postgraduate clinical work experience.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-02-20
• Primary completion: 2025-08-29
• Completion: 2025-09-30
• First posted: 2025-02-20
• Last updated: 2025-11-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt