Previously, clinicians often had to wait an average of 6 hours with the lower-sensitivity, lower-precision cTn assays to see a conclusive increase in plasma cTn levels after the first troponin measurement, but today's high-sensitivity cTn tests that are separated by a mere 2 to 3 hours can be highly informative.
Dr. Daniel Hay, DO is a family medicine doctor who practices in Orlando, FL. He is 47 years old and has been practicing for 17 years.
Daniel Shays' parents emigrated from Ireland to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1730s. Patrick and Margaret (Dempsey) Shays married in 1744 and set up housekeeping in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. In 1747, Margaret gave birth to Daniel, the second of what would be a family of six children. (1)