Utilization of Chest Pain Decision Aids in a Community Hospital Emergency Department: A Mixed-methods Implementation Study.

Introduction: Chest pain is a common reason for emergency department (ED) visits. Evidence-based decision aids assessing risk for an adverse cardiac event are underused in community hospital emergency care. This study explored the acceptability, barriers, facilitators, and potential strategies for implementation of the HEART Score risk stratification tool, accelerated diagnostic pathway, and shared decision-making visual aid with physicians and chest pain patients ages >45 in a community hospital ED.

Bilateral obstructing renal stones: an uncommon cause of acute renal failure.

Bilateral renal calculi are an uncommon cause of acute renal failure (ARF). The causes of ARF include prerenal, obstructive (or postrenal), and intrinsic [1,2]. Postrenal causes account for 5% to 15% of cases of ARF [3].