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BET 2. TROPONIN FOR 30-DAY RISK STRATIFICATION IN CHEST PAIN PATIENTS WITH ISCHAEMIC ECG
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Report by: Stewart Teece, Specialist Registrar Emergency Medicine
Search checked by: Kerstin Hogg, Academic Clinical Lecturer, Emergency Medicine
Institution: Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK
CLINICAL SCENARIO
A 62-year-old man presents to the emergency department with a 45-minute history of chest pain that is beginning to abate after aspirin and buccal nitrates in the ambulance. As he has a 1 mm ST depression in his anterior leads you give him …