Advancing Heart Health: The Role of Biomarker Sensitivity and Precision in Emergency Medicine
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Summary
When a patient presents to the Emergency Department (ED) with chest pain and/or acute shortness of breath (dyspnea), how do you know if it is serious? Chest pain and dyspnea, two common reasons for ED visits, can be caused by a wide range of conditions from sepsis to cardiac conditions. Highly sensitive biomarkers aid in rapidly identifying and monitoring heart conditions to help clinicians diagnose disease for better patient management.
In this webinar, learn how biomarker sensitivity and precision are advancing heart health from Dr. Brandon Allen, attending ED physician and Medical Director of the Emergency Department Clinical Decision Unit and Chest Pain Center at University of Florida Health. He will present insights into the importance of assay precision in diagnostic medicine and how measurements of high sensitivity troponin and natriuretic peptide assays can improve clinical decision-making.
Speakers
Associate Professor-Emergency Medicine
UF Health Chest Pain Center Medical Director
University of Florida College of Medicine
Dr. Brandon Allen is the medical director of the Emergency Department at the University of Florida. His areas of interest include teaching aspiring physicians through the hospital’s scribe program, improving quality in the Emergency department, promoting observation medicine, and advancing throughput innovations and cardiac biomarkers research.
He has over 100 publications on topics ranging from high sensitivity cardiac troponin-based approaches to identify myocardial infarction to age, sex, and gender differences in cardiac troponin levels. He serves on multiple committees, as an advisor and mentor for faculty, residents, and students, and as an editor for multiple peer-reviewed journals.
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