Interpreting Changes in Troponin—Clinical Judgment Is Essential

Interpreting changes in troponin--clinical judgment is essential.

A 51-year-old woman with a history of mild hypertension and mild hyperlipidemia presented with a 2-h episode of substernal chest discomfort for the first time. She was receiving a statin but refused treatment for hypertension. She was an avid runner and had never had chest discomfort previously. The discomfort occurred at rest and radiated to her arms and her neck. Her electrocardiogram reveale...

Is a Determinant Judgment Really a Judgment?

Interpreting vessel diameter changes in vascular headaches.

and B Sperling, merits attention because it describes the novel application of two non-invasive techniques to address the relationship between vessel dilatation and the pain of headache. Ten migraineurs with unilateral headache were subjected to transcranial doppler sonography (to measure blood velocity within the middle cerebral artery) and single photon emission computerized tomography (to me...

How "situational" is judgment in situational judgment tests?

Whereas situational judgment tests (SJTs) have traditionally been conceptualized as low-fidelity simulations with an emphasis on contextualized situation descriptions and context-dependent knowledge, a recent perspective views SJTs as measures of more general domain (context-independent) knowledge. In the current research, we contrasted these 2 perspectives in 3 studies by removing the situatio...

Attitude, Perception and Judgment changes in cope with very cold weather conditions: a qualitative study

Significant psychological changes in extremely cold regions are considered as natural human reactions. Antarctica has very cold conditions and is considered a natural laboratory for many studies in various fields. Survival, in this harsh environment, is unmanageable without human preconditions; Antarctica with a focus on resilience and psychological adjustment, an opportunity for the individual...