Results for: troponin
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 looking at the utility of …
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 patients whose history was a …
Medical School Lesson Plan – Chest Pain
Lesson Plan prepared by Iain Beardsell, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, University Hospital Southampton
Covid-19 Journal Club: The Director’s Cut #6
The Emergency Medicine Academic Group based out of Leicester have given us another fantastic directors cut. Check out their work here! Professor Tim Coates and Dr Mohammed Elwan have searched every COVID-19 publication, and summarised …
Lesson Plan – Making a Referral
If you’re not sure what I mean by a James Bond Opening, watch this……
Lesson Plan – Chest Pain (Induction)
Lesson Plan prepared by Iain Beardsell, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, University Hospital Southampton
JC: Are we fully LoDED?
Over the last few years many of us in the UK have started to incorporate high sensitivity troponin into the assessment of patients presenting with chest pain. We have seen these samples taken at ever …
