JC: Can we rule out ACS by a single prehospital troponin measurement?
A review of a paper from the European Heart Journal looking at the prehospital use of troponin in patients with low risk chest pain.
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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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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) . …
Induction to Emergency Medicine – St Emlyn’s Resources
Over the past few years I am very proud to say that as a team at St Emlyn’s we haven’t just focused on the exciting parts of emergency medicine, but …
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Getting your chest pain evaluation right: #UMECS16
Last week, while Iain was giving a keynote lecture in Austria, I was also heading for distant shores to speak about chest pain evaluation at a special conference set up …
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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 …
Is severe chest pain more likely to be a heart attack?
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 …
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Induction – Chest Pain in the ED
Chest pain is the archetypal ED presentation: one which presents frequently and usually has a benign cause, but could, just could, be the result of life threatening pathology. As Emergency …