Undetectable Concentrations of a Food and Drug Administration–approved High-sensitivity Cardiac Troponin T Assay to Rule Out Acute Myocardial Infarction at Emergency Department Arrival

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 1267-1277

  McRae, Andrew D ^a   Innes, Grant ^a   Graham, Michelle ^d   Lang, Eddy ^a   Andruchow, James E ^a   Ji, Yunqi ^b   Vatanpour, Shabnam ^a   Abedin, Tasnima ^b   Yang, Hong ^a   Southern, Danielle A ^a   Wang, Dongmei ^b   Seiden Long, Isolde ^c   DeKoning, Lawrence ^c   Kavsak, Peter ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA HEALTH SERVICES   (Canada)

^c CALGARY LABORATORY SERVICES   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN T; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ALL CAUSE MORTALITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MAJOR ADVERSE CARDIAC EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVASCULARIZATION; THORAX PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; BIOMARKERS; CHEST PAIN; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TROPONIN T; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 85027511862     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.13229     Document Type: Article

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