Medical News Today -- Today in most countries of the world almost 50 per cent of patients in hospital for a cardiac condition began their treatment as emergency cases: chest pain at home... a cardiac arrest in the street. Thus, according to Dr Peter Clemmensen, local chairman of this year’s Acute Cardiac Care congress which opened in Copenhagen on 16 October, of the 22 million hospital admissions in Europe each year for acute cardiac events, more than 10 million of them would have begun as an emergency and without warning. “Early diagnosis is crucial in these cases for successful treatment and survival,” he says, describing acute coronary care as “the most challenging field of cardiology”.
