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.
He attended Brown University in Rhode Island before becoming the secretary of fellow Illinoian, President Abraham Lincoln. In 1865 Hay became secretary to the U.S. legation at Paris, going next to Vienna and traveling to Turkey, Poland, and Spain. Upon his return to the United States, he became a journalist, working under Whitelaw Reid.