Troponin Assays the 411 - 2021 Quality Summit presentation (Non-CE)-Troponin Assays the 411

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Video Summary

The video is a 30-minute highlight of essential information on troponin assays. The speaker, Christina Blankenship, gives a quick shout-out and special thanks to the meeting organizers Maria Ortiz, Maddy Tapp, and Connie Anderson. The video has two learning objectives, which are a review of the basics of troponin assays and a deep dive into high sensitivity troponin assays. The speaker starts by explaining the basics of troponin and why it can be relied upon to support the diagnosis of patients with possible myocardial infarctions. Troponin is a building block of skeletal and cardiac muscles and is specific to the heart muscle. Troponin levels in the blood indicate damage to the heart muscle. The speaker introduces the concept of the upper reference limit (URL) for troponin assays, which identifies the highest amount of troponin considered normal. Values above the 99th percentile URL are considered abnormal and indicative of myocardial injury or infarction. The speaker emphasizes the importance of knowing the URL for each hospital's assay and highlights that troponin assays can have different URLs based on sex. The speaker also explains the different units of measure associated with troponin assays and the importance of coding accurate values and units of measure in data collection. Dr. Mike Kontos then takes over to discuss high sensitivity troponin assays. Overall, the video provides an overview of troponin assays, including their significance in diagnosing heart muscle damage and the implications of high sensitivity troponin assays.

Keywords

troponin assays

upper reference limit

myocardial infarctions

high sensitivity troponin assays

heart muscle damage