Key result
High-sensitivity cardiac troponin assays are reliable and have low thresholds of detection for rapidly ruling out acute coronary syndrome in the emergency department.
Why the study?
Do high-sensitivity cardiac troponin assays reliably exclude acute coronary syndrome in patients presenting to the emergency department?
Do high-sensitivity cardiac troponin assays reliably exclude acute coronary syndrome in patients presenting to the emergency department?
High-sensitivity cardiac troponin assays are highlighted as reliable tools with low detection thresholds for rapidly ruling out acute coronary syndrome in the emergency department.
Patients with symptoms of possible acute coronary syndrome make up a large proportion of people who present to emergency departments, where they undergo lengthy, intensive, and costly assessments.1,2 Yet few are finally diagnosed with an acute coronary syndrome. Improvements in methods to exclude acute coronary syndrome are needed to reliably reassure and safely discharge low-risk patients who can then proceed to further investigations as outpatients. High-sensitivity cardiac troponin assays are reliable and have low thresholds of detection.
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Cullen et al. (2015) conducted an editorial in Acute coronary syndrome. High-sensitivity cardiac troponin assays was evaluated. High-sensitivity cardiac troponin assays are reliable and have low thresholds of detection for rapidly ruling out acute coronary syndrome in the emergency department.
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