How often do you draw Troponins at your hospital?

Every 8 hrs times 3. Massachusetts

RNcDreams - do 3/24 bloods show anything more significant? It just seems so much extra work and expense...

Approx 10hrs apart, used to be 6-8 hrs. Changed due to funding.

Hi,
I am a tele nurse. When we get chest pain patients it's usually 3 sets of enzymes drawn every 6 or 8 hours apart. If 2 are negative, they get stressed the next day. Sometimes, they are what I call low positives (0.03 to 0.06), which are usually treated as negative. It's not till a patient has a troponin of 0.1 or greater that we think MI, and then you may draw more frequently to determine the peak point and when it starts to go down. This tells how bad the damage is. Hope this helps.
Amy

Q3H x3 then 24H after the first draw.

We do CE q6hrs x3

we draw enzymes q6 x 3 sets for any chest pain r/o MI, unless they are trending upwards, then it's q 3 hours.

It depends on the doctor on how often they are drawn at our hospital (Washington County Hospital in Hagerstown MD)......

one cardiology group orders their cardiac enzymes q6h x 3
another cardiology group orders their cardiac enzymes q8h x 3
and the hospitalist group orders their cardiac enzymes q8h x 2

Generally, there are either drawn every 6 hours or every 8 hours.....I have never seen them drawn every 3 hours

We do an initial draw, then 3, 6, 12, and 24 hours post initial draw.