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ArticleClinical and experimental emergency medicine2025

A rapid noninvasive wearable device for assessing cardiac troponin I level.

William Franklin Peacock, Karina Melissa Soto-Ruiz, Allan S Jaffe, Brian R Tiffany, Simon A Mahler, Brian W Patterson, Alan H B Wu, Robert Christenson

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William Franklin PeacockDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Karina Melissa Soto-RuizComprehensive Research Associates LLC, Houston, TX, USA.
Allan S JaffeDepartment of Cardiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
Brian R TiffanyDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Chandler Regional Medical Center, Chandler, AZ, USA.
Simon A MahlerDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
Brian W PattersonBerbee Walsh Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA.
Alan H B WuDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Robert ChristensonDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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objectiveChest pain, a common emergency department presentation, requires rapid evaluation. The current gold standard of care is serial troponin measurements from blood draws along with an electrocardiogram and clinical presentation. However, an optical technology-based noninvasive wearable device, the Infrasensor, which can rapidly and transcutaneously assesses cardiac troponin I (cTnI), was recently developed. We aimed to perform a pilot study to evaluate the performance of the Infrasensor in cTnI defined cohorts.

methodsThis was a 10-hospital prospective observational study in healthy US subjects with a normal cTnI level and in patients with an elevated local cTnI level. Healthy subjects as determined by a negative questionnaire and bloodwork underwent 3-minute Infrasensor measurement and levels of high-sensitivity cTnI (hs-cTnI), n-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NTproBNP), creatinine, and glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) were evaluated from blood. Patients with elevated cTnI had the same Infrasensor and blood sample measurements. Using a fivefold cross-validation technique, cTnI-based binary classification models that did and did not include age were trained on 80% and validated on 20% of the dataset (n=168; elevated hs-cTnI equally partitioned into five nearly equally-sized subsets ).

resultsOf 840 patients, 727 (87.5%) had normal (nonelevated) cTnI levels while the remaining 113 had elevated cTnI. Median age was 61 years (interquartile range, 52-71 years) for the elevated cohort and 48 years (interquartile range, 32-57 years) for the nonelevated. Overall, 416 (50.5%) were female, with 33 of 113 (29.2%) in the elevated cohort and 383 of 727 (52.7%) in the nonelevated cohort. Overall, the sensitivity, specificity, negative and positive predictive values of the Infrasensor for identifying elevated cTnI were 0.90, 0.70, 0.98 and 0.48, respectively, with a C-statistic of 0.90 (95% confidence interval, 0.89-0.99).

conclusionThe Infrasensor accurately identifies elevated cTnI within 3 minutes of application.

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Acute coronary syndromeEmergency medicineMyocardial infarctionTroponin

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PMCPMC12541513

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