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

NCT ID: NCT06836466

Last Updated: 2025-11-18

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 640 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-02-20
• Study Completion Date: 2025-09-30

Brief 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

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: OTHER
• Study Time Perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL

Study Groups

Group 1

All physicians are subjected to 10 ECGs Surves

Google Form-based questionnaire

Intervention Type: OTHER

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.

Interventions

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.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Age from 25 to 65 years.
• Both sexes.
• Physicians who treat patients with possible acute chest pain.

Exclusion Criteria

• Participants who failed to complete the survey questions.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 25 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 65 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Tanta University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Mohamed Ezzat Nasreddin

Lecturer of Emergency and Traumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt.

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Tanta University

Tanta, El-Gharbia, Egypt

Countries

Egypt

Other Identifiers

36264PR955/11/24

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id