High sensitivity troponin
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 […]
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Cardiac Troponin: The basics from St. Emlyn’s
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,
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How accurate is clinical judgement for acute coronary syndromes?
This blog post is based on the paper published in the EMJ this week – Body R et al. Can emergency physicians rule in or rule out acute coronary syndromes
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The MACS Rule: Immediate ‘rule in’ and ‘rule out’ for suspected cardiac chest pain
This post is about a paper we published today in Heart – the result of more than 9 years of work – phew! Here’s a link to the paper (open
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Cardiology Case 03: Are you missing the STEMI? St. Emlyn’s
Look carefully at the ECG is your don’t want to miss a STEMI
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JC: Cullen on high sensitivity Troponin. St.Emlyn’s
There has been much debate about the use of high sensitivity troponins in the ED over the last year, but the picture is getting clearer as we see more trials
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Why hyper-troponin-aemia does not always equal acute myocardial infarction
Can you remember the time when it took several days to rule out a myocardial infarction? Do you remember running serial CK, LDH and ALT? Did you run this in
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Cardiology Case 02: ST depression, no rush? St.Emlyn’s
Do patients with ST depression (NSTEM) need to go to the Cath Lab urgently?
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