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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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 …
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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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 …