Tag: high sensitivity troponin
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 …
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 two days he has had …
The Troponin Ashes at SMACC Gold: Cullen v Body
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 over at the awesome Intensive …
High sensitivity troponin at St. Emlyn’s
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 take a look at high …
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, I remember doing ward rounds …
