Assessment of a creatine kinase-MB/myoglobin kit in the prehospital setting in patients presenting with acute nontraumatic chest pain
- 1 June 1999
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Critical Care Medicine
- Vol. 27 (6), 1085-1089
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00003246-199906000-00025
Abstract
To evaluate the usefulness of a novel qualitative, rapid, bedside immunoassay device for the detection of elevated creatine kinase MBmass (CK-MB) and myoglobin as a supportive tool for decision-making by the physician who is evaluating patients who present with chest pain. Prospective study. Prehospital (mobile intensive care units). Three hundred twenty-eight consecutive patients, age 71+/-13 yrs (64% males), who were admitted to the hospital via Shahal's mobile intensive care units. During a 6-month period, based on clinical presentations and electrocardiograms, the mobile's physicians classified patients into groups of high or low probability of having an acute myocardial infarction and, thereafter, used a rapid bedside STATus kit (Spectral Diagnostics, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) to determine blood creatine kinase/MB and myoglobin. Myocardial infarction was confirmed in 59 (18%) patients. If measured >2 hrs after onset, diagnostic sensitivities, specificities, and positive and negative predictive values for physicians were as follows: 71%, 90%, 46%, and 96%, respectively, compared with 100%, 85%, 44%, and 100%, respectively, if assessed by the kit. If used 2 to 12 hrs from the onset of symptoms, this device is a convenient diagnostic aid to prevent a misdiagnosis of acute myocardial infarction or unnecessary hospitalization to exclude infarction. This tool may be a promising cost-cutting factor in these days of escalating expenses and dwindling resources.Keywords
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