JC: High sensitivity Troponin I on presentation. Is it enough to rule out ACS? St.Emlyn’s
As you surely know we love thinking about Troponin at St.Emlyn’s. We have our own world expert in Rick Body and there is loads of stuff here on the site […]
As you surely know we love thinking about Troponin at St.Emlyn’s. We have our own world expert in Rick Body and there is loads of stuff here on the site […]
We love a bit of meta-cognition here at St.Emlyn’s. As time passes and we all become a little longer in the tooth it becomes increasingly apparent that it’s not just
JC: Are typical chest pain symptoms predictive of outcome? St.Emlyn’s Read More »
Have you ever heard this sort of conversation in your ED? Junior EDÂ doc:Â Can I run my patient by you, please? Senior ED doc: Sure Junior:Â I Â have a 40
Is severe chest pain more likely to be a heart attack? Read More »
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) from the UK has just published new recommendations for the use of high sensitivity troponin to rule out NSTEMI in the
New NICE high sensitivity troponin guidance: 3 hours and done? Read More »
Unless you’re very new round these #FOAMed parts, by now you’ll definitely have checked out some of the greatest talks in the history of mankind from the SMACC Gold podcast
The Troponin Ashes at SMACC Gold: Cullen v Body Read More »
Recently we published part one of our series on cardiac troponins.  If you haven’t checked it out yet, you can find it here. In the second part, we’re going to
High sensitivity troponin at St. Emlyn’s Read More »
Do you remember when it took three days to ‘rule in’ or ‘rule out’ an acute myocardial infarction (AMI)? When I was a medical student doing my first clinical attachments,
Cardiac Troponin: The basics from St. Emlyn’s Read More »
National/International practice guidelines always give me a bit of a dilemma. On the one hand I feel that I really should read them all….., but on the other hand they
New STEMI Guidelines. St.Emlyn’s Read More »