RT Journal
A1 Leshem-Rubinow E, Abramowitz Y, Malov N, et al
T1 PRehospital cardiac markers in defining ambiguous chest pain
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2011
FD December 12
VO 171
IS 22
SP 2056
OP 2057
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.477
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.477
AB 
The presentation of a life-threatening acute coronary syndrome is often not straightforward. Electrocardiographic (ECG) features can also be equivocal. The utility of several different types of point-of-care testing in the prehospital setting has been assessed and verified during the past 2 decades, but none has been officially recommended for routine use.1- 2 We therefore designed this retrospective observational study to assess the utility of 3 cardiac markers (troponin I/CK-MB/myoglobin) measured with a stat kit in the prehospital setting for confirming or ruling out acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in patients with nonspecific, nontraumatic chest pain and a nondiagnostic ECG.