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Chinese Journal of Nursing Education ›› 2021, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (1): 81-86.doi: 10.3761/j.issn.1672-9234.2021.01.017

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HEART score for predicting cardiac arrest in patients with chest pain in the emergency department

GONG Hai-rong,WU Ting-ting,ZHENG Ruo-fei,LI Hong   

  • Received:2020-05-29 Online:2021-01-20 Published:2021-01-22

Abstract:

Objective To evaluate the accuracy of HEART score for predicting cardiac arrest in patients with chest pain in the emergency department. Methods We conducted a retrospective case-control study in a provincial emergency center from January 1,2017 to December 31,2019. The chest pain patients who experienced cardiac arrest were identified as the case group(n=71). Those who did not experienced cardiac arrest were treated as the control group(n=142). The predictive ability of HEART score and its indicators for prediction of cardiac arrest between the two groups were analyzed. Results The HEART score of the case group(7.52±1.61) was significantly higher than that of the control group(4.77±2.65)(P<0.001),and the area under the ROC curve was 0.81[95%CI(0.75~0.86),P<0.001]. With the increase of the HEART score,it showed a generally linear upward trend of the risk of cardiac arrest. The AUC of the five indicators of HEART score were:electrocardiograph(0.77),troponin(0.72),history(0.70),age(0.60),and risk factor(0.60). Conclusion HEART score performed well for predicting cardiac arrest in chest pain patients in the emergency department. We recommend that applying HEART score and establishing HEART pathway for hierarchical management of patients with chest pain.

Key words: Chest Pain, Heart Arrest, Risk prediction, HEART score