Ep 171 Posterior Stroke, EP Lead, HEAR Score, Ketamine for Suicidal Ideation, Peer Support Workers – Highlights from Calgary EM Hodsman Lecture Day
Emergency Medicine Cases
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The Importance of Sensitivity in Troponin Testing
Dr. McCloud: We should be thinking about an ACS in patients with a broad swath of presenting symptoms. But it isn't necessarily the case that considering an acute coronary syndrome necessarily means ordering a troponin for every patient, he says. "We need to recognize that their high sensitivity for detecting myocardial injury comes at a cost of poor specificity"
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