We do CKMB here at New Cross and ask the doctors to write the time since the
onset of the cardiac event on the request form. Do they do it? They do
not, and they complain like mad if we then withold a result which might be
uninterpretable.
Martin.
Dr M R Holland
Dept Clinical Chemistry
New Cross Hospital
Wolverhampton.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Everitt <[log in to unmask]>
To: ACB Newsgroup <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 12 March 1999 12:10
Subject: Cardiac markers
>
>Like many other hospitals, we have a problem with triage of patients in
>A&E with acute chest pain and non-diagnostic ECG and I have been asked
>to look at the use of newer cardiac specific markers in exclusion of AMI
>and identification of patients with high risk unstable angina
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