In addition to Dr. Weingart’s post below, please be sure to review
Ep 128 Low Risk Chest Pain and High Sensitivity Troponin – A Paradigm Shift from Emergency Medicine Cases.
In this post I embed, link to, and excerpt from EMCrit 266 – High Sensitivity Troponins with Louise Cullen
[Link is to the podcast and show notes] February 20, 2020 by Scott Weingart.
Here is the podcast:
Here are excerpts from the show notes:
High Sensitivity Troponins
IFCC* has released a lab spec sheet on troponins
*IFCC is the abreviation for The International Federation Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
Troponin values must be individualized based on your hospital’s assay
[The above means that the values on the chart are specific to the assay that that hospital is using.]
ACS Decision Aides
- IMPACT Trial
- Comparison of four decision aids for the early diagnosis of acute coronary syndromes in the emergency department
- MDCalc TMACs
- MDCALC EDAC
- HsTNi with decision rules
Other FOAM
