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

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT06836466

Enrollment

640

Registered

2025-02-20

Start date

2025-02-20

Completion date

2025-09-30

Last updated

2025-11-18

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Conditions

Acute Ischemic Chest Pain, Awareness, ECG Abnormalities, Physicians

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.

Interventions

OTHERGoogle 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.

Study design

Observational model

OTHER

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

25 Years to 65 Years

Healthy volunteers

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.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Physicians' Awareness	At time of online survey (Up to 2 months)	Physicians' awareness is measured by a numerical score of 0 to 10, depending on the electrocardiogram (ECG) pattern survey. 0 means (least recognition of ECG pattern) and 10 (high recognition of ECG pattern)

Countries

Egypt

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026