PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Edward Carlton
AU  - Richard Body
TI  - Understanding cardiac troponin part 2: early rule out of acute coronary syndrome
AID  - 10.1136/emermed-2017-207161
DP  - 2018 Mar 01
TA  - Emergency Medicine Journal
PG  - 192--197
VI  - 35
IP  - 3
4099  - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/3/192.short
4100  - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/3/192.full
SO  - Emerg Med J2018 Mar 01; 35
AB  - Chest pain of suspected cardiac origin is a very common emergency department presentation. Over the past decade, there has been an exponential growth in strategies that promote blood sampling at earlier and earlier time points after presentation to facilitate the rule out of acute coronary syndrome.In part 2 of this series, we examine key concepts from the recent literature with the aim of improving clinicians’ understanding of the rule-out strategies available to them and provide a structured overview of strategies that facilitate discharge with blood testing over <3 hours.