Highlights from this issue

Avoiding troponitis in the ED

There's a mildly amusing quote knocking around the internet that goes something along the lines of 'When Troponin was a bad assay it was a great test, now it's a great assay it's a lousy test'. It's funny but wrong. There is no doubt that the assays for Troponin have improved with the development of high sensitivity tests, but sadly the ability of clinicians to interpret the results has not kept pace with the technology. In this edition Rick Body and Ed Carlton start a series that will challenge this knowledge gap in the pursuit of understanding how we can use Troponin testing sensibly and safely. More than that is the need for all of us to understand how diagnostic tests really work. We need to move beyond a simple understanding of tests being positive or negative and increasingly understand how a test...

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