DOMICIANO, Carolina Bandeira.; BRASILEIRO, Francisco Cleanto.; LOPES, Lígia Cristina.; ARAÚJO, Lilyan Moura Fé.; BRINGEL, Raíssa Alves.
Resumo:
The chest pain is a relatively frequent manifestation symptomatic and complex, since it may be due to
cardiac causes and non-cardiac multiple pathophysiological mechanisms, there is acute or chronic, with
clinical expression not always easy to distinguish between different etiologies. Up to 7% of all cases treated
in emergency care units related to complaints of chest pain. Thus, it was aimed to evaluate the chest pain
and its systematization in the emergency room through a survey of 476 sheets of care patients received in
emergency units of 4 hospitals in SUS or arrangement of Campina Grande. The study was primarily
descriptive, quantitative, and desk with prospective method of procedure casual. There was slight female
predominance (51.4%) with average of 47.7 ± 18.3 years and the first clinical manifestation of acute
myocardial infarction. Was found a cardiac etiology of chest pain in 57,8% of the pacients, handled
differently between planton emergencies, without any protocol or algorithm-specific treatment. In conclusion
the lack of protocol for chest pain in emergency rooms shows an urgent correction, to speed, efficiency,
quality of care and contain costs.