Is cardiac troponin T at ICU admission associated with mortality in major trauma patients?
Cardiac troponin T at ICU admission serves as a prognostic marker for mortality in major trauma patients, regardless of direct cardiac trauma.
This confirms cardiac troponin T at ICU admission as a marker of mortality in major trauma. Elevated cardiac troponin T may be seen in patients without evidence of direct cardiac trauma.
Crewdson et al. (Wed,) studied this question.