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Risk stratification of patients with acute chest pain and normal troponin concentrations
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- Published on: 23 November 2015
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Dear Editor,
We should all remember our clinical skills and the evidence that existed in B.T. (Before Troponin) times. I still take a convincing cardiac history and suspicious ECG changes seriously and ignore the first troponin, keeping the patient in at least 24 hours and measuring a second troponin/creatinine kinase, or exercising the patient if further pain occurs. We should all be wary of becoming too dependan...
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