Search results for "Troponin"
MKSAP quiz on chest pain
Cases involving chest pain are presented.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/10/MKSAP-chest-pain.htm
15 Oct 2015
New definition of MI released
A consensus document from several cardiology organizations recently provided new official definitions of myocardial infarction (MI).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2012/09/12/1.htm
12 Sep 2012
New antibiotic, report on drug shortages
Details on the latest alerts, recalls, and approvals.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/01/fda-update-new-antibiotic-report-on-drug-shortages.htm
15 Jan 2020
Cases from Yale-New Haven Hospital
This new quarterly column summarizes interesting patients in their doctors' words.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/11/briefcase.htm
15 Nov 2012
In The News
Mixing alcohol with opioids and benzodiazepines, postdischarge efforts and readmissions, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/01/itn.htm
15 Jan 2015
Melding intuition with deliberation to sidestep diagnostic traps
Would you pass “the eyeball test” if the patient in this case study presented in your hospital's emergency department? Find out how one physician pressed for a better answer on a patient who presented with cardiac pain but no evidence of a heart attack.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/03/mindful.htm
15 Mar 2009
Test yourself: Sepsis
These cases and commentary, which address sepsis, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP15).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/01/ty.htm
15 Jan 2011
PE in pregnancy, normal troponins
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/09/recent-research.htm
15 Sep 2019
EKG and high-sensitivity troponin T may rule out myocardial infarction
Among chest-pain patients with no new ischemia on an electrocardiogram (EKG) and troponin T below 0.005 µg/L, only 0.5% had an acute myocardial infarction during hospitalization and none died.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/04/19/1.htm
19 Apr 2017
Cases from the University of Texas at Austin
Pericardial tamponade due to multiple myeloma, postpartum spontaneous coronary artery dissection, neurogenic T-wave inversions, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/05/brief-case-university-of-texas-at-austin.htm
15 May 2016