COVID-19 and The Heart. St Emlyn’s
A 70 year old man presents to your Emergency Department (ED) with a three week history of cough and mild shortness of breath, but this is improving. Over the last …
Troponins
A Decade of Diagnostics in Emergency Care
When we saw in the last decade, I’d just finished my PhD looking to discover the ‘new troponin’. At the time, patients with suspected acute coronary syndromes (ACS) were routinely …
Risk scores for cardiac chest pain: the first head-to-head comparison!
Suspected cardiac chest pain: everyone sees it, everyone has a different clinical pathway, and everyone has a different risk score for it. This week the Emergency Medicine Journal published our …
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The Future of Diagnostics #stemlynsLIVE
Making diagnoses is arguably the most important aspect of our work in Emergency Medicine. Until we know something about the nature of a patient’s condition, we can’t make informed decisions …
Troponin and biotin: a lethal combination?
Imagine you’re treating a patient who presented with typical cardiac chest pain. The initial ECG showed subtle lateral ST depression that seemed to resolve on subsequent ECGs. You’re very concerned …
St Emlyn’s in Review – October 2017
It’s great to be back podcasting again after what has been a busy few months, We’re sorry for the hiatus, but occasionally other stuff gets in the way! Here we …
Is cMyC the new troponin?
Anyone who reads the news is likely to have seen the recent paper in Circulation evaluating a new biomarker of acute coronary syndromes: cardiac myosin binding protein C (cMyC) . …
One high sensitivity troponin test to rule out acute myocardial infarction
This month I was honoured that a study I wrote with some terrific colleagues from Europe, Australia and the USÂ has been published as the ‘Editor’s Choice’ in Academic Emergency Medicine. …
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