Sensitive troponin assay predicts outcome in syncope

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1001-1003

  Reed, Matthew J ^a   Mills, Nicholas L ^b   Weir, Christopher J ^b  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN;

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FAINTNESS; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STANDARD;

ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOTLAND; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNCOPE; TROPONIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870060045     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2012-201332     Document Type: Article

References (4)

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