Cardiac Panel Profile I

Cardiac biomarkers are proteins that are released when muscle cells are damaged. They are requested when patients have symptoms of acute coronary syndrome, such as chest pain, pain in the jaw, neck, abdomen, back, or that radiates to the shoulder or arms, nausea, breathlessness, and lightheadedness and constitute one part of the triage of assessing the aforementioned symptoms. The others being electrocardiographic investigation and the clinical presentation.