Cardiac marker change: Troponin T to Troponin I
September 3, 2019
The Trust has changed from Troponin T to Troponin I as our cardiac marker. This change should overcome the many issues we have had in recent months with our Troponin T method. In particular this has been caused by the fact that we have to use small offline analysers for Troponin T and these aging machines have had an increasing failure rate. This has led to us having to transfer samples between our City and Sandwell laboratories far too many times in the last few months. Sometimes this led to delays in results being available to use clinically.
The way that Troponin I is to be used clinically is shown in the user guide below. This clinical protocol has been worked up with our cardiology team.
Note: The clinical scientist overseeing this implementation is James Pethick, Principal Biochemist. James can be contacted at james.pethick@nhs.net. He will be auditing the implementation of this new service and is available to answer any queries on an ongoing basis.