I am practicing in a setting where cardiology is fairly available for routine chest pain consults from ED.
The downside to that that some of them tend to "clear" a lot of atypical chest pain cases after 1 troponin and EKG.
It is not uncommon at all for them to "clear" 56yo smoker with HTN who came in with 30 minutes of atypical pain and troponin of 0.12.
My coworkers seem to think that if cardiology signs off the case, you as an emergency physician are protected against any litigation when **** hits the fan. To me this doesn't sound right.
Does anybody have any experience or opinion about this?
The downside to that that some of them tend to "clear" a lot of atypical chest pain cases after 1 troponin and EKG.
It is not uncommon at all for them to "clear" 56yo smoker with HTN who came in with 30 minutes of atypical pain and troponin of 0.12.
My coworkers seem to think that if cardiology signs off the case, you as an emergency physician are protected against any litigation when **** hits the fan. To me this doesn't sound right.
Does anybody have any experience or opinion about this?