Potential impact of a point-of-care high-sensitivity cardiac troponin assay on emergency department length of stay and patient disposition: findings from a cardiac emergency department
Robert Meek, Zhong Xian Lu, Udara Dilrukshi Senarathne, Sean Tan, Louise Cullen, John W Pickering, Martin Paul Than, Georgina Hayden, Adam Damianopoulos, Claire Charteris, Alex Duong, Diana Egerton-Warburton · 2025
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Robert Meek and co-authors estimate how a bedside heart test could cut emergency stays in a 2025 study from an Australian heart hospital. Fast rule-out paths for suspected heart attack need a sensitive troponin result within about an hour, but lab results often miss that window. A point-of-care device returns results sooner.
Patients tested for suspected heart attack in the emergency department had both the lab test and the bedside test run in parallel. The team compared the stay that bedside timing would allow with the actual stay under lab timing. The work ran over weekday hours in the second half of 2024 as a quality project. Its findings speak to flow in a dedicated cardiac emergency service.
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| CREATOR | Robert Meek, Zhong Xian Lu, Udara Dilrukshi Senarathne, Sean Tan, Louise Cullen, John W Pickering, Martin Paul Than, Georgina Hayden, Adam Damianopoulos, Claire Charteris, Alex Duong, Diana Egerton-Warburton |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 9 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |