Impact of Point‐of‐care Testing in the Emergency Department Evaluation and Treatment of Patients with Suspected Acute Coronary Syndromes - Concepedia

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Impact of Point‐of‐care Testing in the Emergency Department Evaluation and Treatment of Patients with Suspected Acute Coronary Syndromes

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2008

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Bertrand Renaud, Patrick Maison, A. Ngako, Patrick Cunin, A. Santin, Jérôme Hervé, M. Salloum, Marie‐Jeanne Calmettes, Cyril Boraud, Virginie Lemiale,

Academic Emergency Medicine

Abstract

Point-of-care testing for cTnI measurement might be clinically relevant for ED patients with a suspicion of NSTE-ACS, particularly for high-risk patients with a low suspicion of ACS.

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