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Description: A patient arrives in ED with chest pain. An Abbott iSTAT® troponin-I (cTnI) test is reported as 600 ng/L which is abnormal (definition 40ng/L or greater). The patient is sent by ambulance to regional site for an angiogram. The Internist reviews the case and requests another cTnI; which comes back as less than 20ng/L. The first specimen is rerun on the iSTAT and is also less 20ng/L, which is confirmed by high sensitivity Troponin-I testing. Why was the first result abnormal? How often is this occurring? We should audit to find out…

Start date: Upon registration

Completion: Up to 52 weeks

At the end of this webinar you will be able to:

• Find opportunities to improve test utilization using peer comparison
• Identify non-MI events that can cause an increase in troponin-I levels – Positives, but not MI related
• Identify specimen interferents that cause false positive troponin-I values – False positives

Speaker: Pam Vansteelandt MLT, BSc., MBA

Pam graduated from Lambton College with Medical Laboratory Science in 1995, BSc from Windsor University in 1997, and an MBA from University of Phoenix in 2012. Pam worked in Core Lab, with a particular interest in Transfusion Medicine, for 9 years prior to making the move to management. Pam has been the Quality Assurance Lead for the InterHospital Laboratory Partnership for 15 years.

Recorded: June 4, 2022

PEP hours: 1.0

CPS credits: 0

*Note: PEP hours and/or CPS credits will only be awarded upon successful completion of the quiz.