10,000 patients studied to speed up heart attack diagnosis

NCT ID NCT00470587

First seen Dec 18, 2025 · Last updated Apr 28, 2026 · Updated 17 times

Summary

This study looked at 10,000 people who came to the emergency room with chest pain. The goal was to see if new blood tests could help doctors find out faster if someone is having a heart attack. Researchers compared these new tests to the standard test to see which worked best.

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Emergency Department San Martino Hospital

    Genova, Italy

  • Hospital Clinic of Barcelona

    Barcelona, 08036, Spain

  • Hospital Clinico San Carlos

    Madrid, Spain

  • Hospital del Mar

    Barcelona, Spain

  • Kantonsspital Baselland, Standort Bruderholz

    Bottmingen, Switzerland

  • Kantonsspital Baselland, Standort Liestal

    Liestal, Switzerland

  • Kantonsspital Olten

    Olten, Switzerland

  • Klinik St. Anna

    Lucerne, Switzerland

  • Masaryk University Brno

    Brno, Czechia

  • Medical University of Silesia

    Zabrze, Poland

  • Spital Limmattal

    Schlieren, Switzerland

  • University Hospital of Basel

    Basel, 4031, Switzerland

  • Universitätsspital Zürich

    Zurich, Switzerland

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