Welcome to the Recess Room podcast.

Five, four, three, two, one, fire.

So hi, and welcome back to the Recess Room podcast. I'm Simon Lang, and today I've got with me.

Ed Carlton, Emergency medicine consultant from Bristol.

And Ed, you're on today, very kindly, because we're going to be speaking about...

Troponin's my passion.

Absolutely.

And it's definitely a passion because it's taking us about an hour to set up this recording,

so I'm sure it's going to be worthwhile.

I hope so.

For the pain involved so far.

There have been three papers that come out recently that look at troponins in an ACS rule-out

strategy, which is something that all of us in emergency medicine will be involved in in a number of different ways and so it'll be interesting

to run through these three papers. So before we run through the three papers that you've

picked out, there are probably some concepts that we all need to understand before we actually

talk about them all and quite a lot of depth. So there are obviously a wide variety of

troponins that

people use. So high sensitivity troponin, that's what we're going to be concentrating on here,

isn't it? Yeah, yeah. So high sensitivity troponin are lab-based troponin. You can't get a point

of care, a high-sensitit tropon test. And if you're using them, you're either using

a troponin T or a troponin I assay. And there are only two available, and they've got key

characteristics that I think we should just run through briefly. We're certainly using

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