ARAÚJO, Lílyan Moura Fé.; BRASILEIRO, Francisco Cleanto.
Résumé:
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 138 sheets of care patients received in
emergency unit of hospital João XXIII. The study was primarily descriptive, quantitative, and desk with
prospective method of procedure casual. There was slight female predominance (55%) with average of 52 ±
18.3 years and the first clinical manifestation of acute myocardial infarction. The professions were involved in
percentile, with the retirement 46%, housewife 18%, farmer 14%, independent professional 7%, student 3%,
and others professions such as driver and painter with 1,3% each one totaling the remaining 12%. Was
found in 84,5% and etiology of chest pain to cardiac causes handled differently between Planton
emergencies, without any protocol or algorithm-specific treatment. Among the various risk factors for
cardiovascular disease was registered only the level of blood pressure (163/87 ± 13/7, respectively for
systolic and diastolic pressures). In conclusion the lack of protocol for chest pain
