Case Reports Clinical Chemistry 2022 Exercise 2: Triaging Chest Pain Patients After Implementation of High-Sensitivity Troponin Testing

Author

Steven Wesley Cotten, PhD

Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

University of North Carolina School of Medicine

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Primary Audience: Pathologists and Clinical Scientists
Secondary Audience: Residents, Laboratory Technologist/Scientist (Includes all sub-specialty areas), Students, Pathologist Assistants,  Laboratory Directors and Educators

Upon completion of this activity, you will be able to:

·         contrast contemporary and high-sensitivity troponin assays;

·         summarize the importance of the delta value as it relates to serial troponin measurements;

·         discuss how to integrate traditional risk scoring systems for triaging patients in the emergency department with the rule-out performance of high-sensitivity troponin assays; and

·         discuss the metrics associated with American College of Cardiologists Chest Pain Accreditation.