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Emergency Medicine Deserves to “Re-Brand” Itself as a Cost Saver

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Now, for selected patients, emergency physicians can leverage low and non-rising high sensitivity troponin values and a low HEART score (composed of history, ECG, age, risk factors, and troponin level) to implement outpatient follow-up plans safely, within a few hours. Risk of brain tumor induction from pediatric head CT procedures.