TY  - JOUR
T1  - PRehospital cardiac markers in defining ambiguous chest pain
AU  - Leshem-Rubinow E, Abramowitz Y, Malov N, et al
Y1  - 2011/12/12
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.477
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 2056
EP  - 2057
VL  - 171
IS  - 22
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.477
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.477
ER  -