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Study NCT ID: NCT03590535
Status: COMPLETED
Last Update Posted: 2022-07-21
First Post: 2018-07-06

Brief Title: 5th Generation cTnT in ED ACS
Sponsor: Columbia University
Organization: Columbia University

Study Overview

Official Title: Fifth Generation Cardiac Troponin-T cTnT Assays in Emergency Department ED Evaluation of Possible Acute Coronary Syndromes ACS
Status: COMPLETED
Status Verified Date: 2022-07
Last Known Status: None
Delayed Posting: No
If Stopped, Why?: Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access: False
If Expanded Access, NCT#: N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status: N/A
Acronym: None
Brief Summary: This study intends to investigate the usefulness of the new 5th generation cardiac troponin enzyme in determining which patients presenting with possible acute coronary syndrome can be quickly and safely discharged or admitted from the Emergency Department The investigators hypothesize that introducing this enzyme into practice will reduce the time it takes to make decisions about admitting or discharging these patients with no increase in adverse events in the discharged patients
Detailed Description: The workup of patients for acute coronary syndrome ACS is one of the most common diagnostic considerations in medicine today Chest pain is the cause of over 7 million annual emergency visits in the United States alone representing over 10 billion in annual healthcare costs Because of the significant morbidity and mortality associated with ACS as well as the perception that there is a greater degree of professional liability associated with its misdiagnosis a disproportionate amount of clinical energy and resources are currently employed to either make rule-in or exclude rule-out the diagnoses Yet only a small fraction of these patients are eventually diagnosed with ACS The combination of high importance paired with significant clinical heterogeneity makes it a diagnosis that is made with great difficulty and at great expense

For the past several decades serial measurements of cardiac biomarkers over a period of several hours have been the mainstay of ACS evaluation More recently high sensitivity assays for the troponin enzyme the most widely followed marker of cardiac injury have been introduced for clinical use outside of the United States

These high-sensitivity cardiac troponin hs-cTn assays have been shown to be more sensitive for detecting injury to cardiac myocytes and have been employed in protocols that allow for a more rapid rule-in and rule-out of ACS in European Canadian and Australasian settings In 2017 the FDA approved the Roche Elecsys Troponin T Gen 5 Stat 5th Gen Tn assay for clinical use in the United States

The American medical community has responded to this with both eagerness and trepidation Despite large clinical trials demonstrating the utility of these new assays in study populations it is unclear what the impact will be on clinical practice There is an understandable concern among providers that this highly sensitive assay will identify many patients with elevated levels of troponin from non-ACS causes and with uncertain clinical significance There is also uncertainty because studies performed in European populations may not be applicable to the multi-ethnic populations that present to US emergency departments

While there is much literature that attests to the performance of the test in study settings there is less understanding of the impact of this assay on real-world practice settings Therefore it is critically important that we track and study how the new assay affects provider practice and clinical outcomes in our diverse population of patients in our quaternary medical system which includes a largely inner city lower income multi-ethnic population with a high proportion of Hispanic and black patients

Current local protocol calls for risk stratification of patients based on a modified version of the HEART Score in conjunction with serial 4th generation troponin measurements at a 3 hour interval Patients who have scores 3 are discharged with close outpatient follow up

Starting data collection while the current 4th-generation troponin assay is still being used will enable us to perform a prospective observational study on the impact of the 5th Gen Tn assay on patient throughput in the Emergency Department ED In particular the investigators would want to measure impact of the new assay on the amount of time it takes to evaluate a patient in the ED as they anticipate the 5th Gen Tn will allow more rapid decision making in the clinical environment The primary outcomes will be the change in the time it takes to make a clinical decision regarding admission or discharge to the hospital in patients presenting with possible ACS This time interval is often referred to as the doctor to disposition time or provider to decision time The investigators will also be able to evaluate impact on other throughput related factors such as admission rates

Enrolling patients from the ED the investigators will perform telephone follow-up 30 and 90 days following their ED visit to ascertain clinical outcomes They will assess for any differences in the rate of major adverse cardiac events MACE - defined as likely cardiac death non-fatal myocardial infarction malignant dysrhythmia or emergent revascularization procedures - between patients evaluated with the 4th-generation and 5th Gen Tn can be quantified both in the discharged and admitted groups This study will be uniquely qualified to evaluate these outcomes in a Hispanic cohort which has been relatively underrepresented in the literature to date

In addition studying the new assay in a real world clinical practice will allow investigators to better understand how to interpret rapid changes in troponin values that remain below the 99th percentile normal range 14 ngL in females 22 ngL in males Multiple studies have demonstrated the utility of measuring the change in serum troponin concentration delta-troponin over pre-defined time intervals for identifying patients at risk for acute myocardial infarction AMI and MACE In many EDs however limited clinical resources makes it difficult to obtain repeat blood tests on strict time frames In the very high volume setting of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center CUIMC ED the investigators expect to be able to evaluate the utility of tracking the rate of change of the 5th Gen Tn assay over multiple time points

Being able to quantify the impact of the new test on practice patterns and ED patient throughput is critical to understanding how to best implement 5th Gen Tn into protocols that provide safe and efficient care This data will also be of high significance not just to our local institution but to many other acute care settings and health systems across the United States as they in turn adopt this new assay over the next several years Finally studying this new assay in the particular socioeconomic and racialethnic patient mix of our institution will help understand the best way to implement this test throughout the Western hemisphere

Study Oversight

Has Oversight DMC: None
Is a FDA Regulated Drug?: False
Is a FDA Regulated Device?: False
Is an Unapproved Device?: None
Is a PPSD?: None
Is a US Export?: None
Is an FDA AA801 Violation?: None