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Building a Better Mousetrap for Chest Pain
Author(s) -
Baumann Brigitte M.,
Miller Chadwick D.,
Cone David C.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
academic emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.221
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1553-2712
pISSN - 1069-6563
DOI - 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2012.01362.x
Subject(s) - medicine , copeptin , chest pain , intensive care medicine , troponin , emergency department , myocardial infarction , psychiatry , vasopressin
This commentary discusses two articles in the current issue of Academic Emergency Medicine that report on investigations of copeptin, a novel biomarker used in conjunction with troponin and an accelerated diagnostic protocol (ADP) in the evaluation of chest pain patients. The authors discuss the challenges and future directions of the evaluation and identification of low‐risk chest pain patients who are safe for discharge without additional diagnostic testing.