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At triage, a patient reports fatigue and shortness of breath with a history of pulmonary and cardiovascular disease. Because you don’t know the patient’s brain natriuretic peptide or troponin level, you begin treating the patient for pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and heart failure, and you start the admission process.

Do point-of-care tests to cut chest pain delays