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Your Organisational Guidance
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Behandeling acuut coronair syndroom in een urgente situatie (in afwachting van hospitalisatie)Published by: Werkgroep Ontwikkeling Richtlijnen Eerste Lijn (Worel)Last published: 2022La prise en charge du syndrome coronarien aigu (SCA) en situation d'urgence (en attente d'hospilatisation)Published by: Groupe de Travail Développement de recommmandations de première ligneLast published: 2022Definition
History and exam
Key diagnostic factors
- chest pain
- risk factors for cardiovascular disease
- marked sweating
- cardiogenic shock
- acute heart failure
Other diagnostic factors
- nausea and vomiting
- arrhythmias
- Abnormal heart sounds
- epigastric pain
- dyspnoea
- syncope
- back pain
Risk factors
- smoking
- hypertension
- diabetes
- obesity and metabolic syndrome phenotype
- sedentary behaviour and physical inactivity
- dyslipidaemia
- chronic kidney disease
- atherosclerosis (history of angina, myocardial infarction, stroke, transient ischaemic attack, peripheral vascular disease)
- family history of premature coronary artery disease
- age >60 years
- cocaine use
- depression
- stent thrombosis or restenosis
- sleep apnoea
- surgical procedures (including intra-operative and postoperative periods)
- migraine
- adverse pregnancy outcomes
Diagnostic investigations
1st investigations to order
- ECG
- high-sensitivity troponin
- echocardiography
- chest x-ray
- full blood count
- urea, electrolytes, and creatinine
- liver function tests
- blood glucose
- C-reactive protein
Treatment algorithm
Contributors
Expert advisers
Shrilla Banerjee, MD, FRCP
Consultant Interventional Cardiologist
East Surrey Hospital
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
UK
Disclosures
SB has received speaker fees for educational lectures (presentation content was her own) and meeting participation from Menarini, Edwards Lifesciences, Abbott Vascular, and Shockwave IVL. She has also participated in an Advisory Board for Sahajanand Medical Technologies Limited. SB has received travel sponsorship from Biosensors International to attend the PCR meeting in Paris in 2022. She has prepared a manuscript on coronary microvascular dysfunction for Abbott for Cardiovascular News (no royalties).
Adam Hartley, MBBS, BSc, MRCP
Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow
Imperial College London
Specialist Registrar in Cardiology
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
London
UK
Disclosures
AH declares that he has no competing interests.
Acknowledgements
BMJ Best Practice would like to gratefully acknowledge the previous expert contributors, whose work has been retained in parts of the content:
Resham Baruah MBBS, BSc MRCP, PhD
Consultant Cardiologist
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
London
UK
Cody S Deen, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director of Cardiology
Hillsborough Hospital
University of North Carolina
Hillsborough
NC
Disclosures
RB has received honoraria/speakers’ fees from Novartis and Boehringer Ingelheim. CSD was previously the Director of Cardiac Rehab for Chatham Hospital, which was financially set up as a consultancy relationship, until 2017. CSD has spoken (unpaid) at the Update in Cardiology and Update in Internal Medicine Conferences at UNC for the last 5 years. CSD has served as the PI for the Dal-GeneE (site now closed) and the ACCELERATE Trials at the University of North Carolina (trial now completed). Each trial required paid travel to an investigator meeting.
Peer reviewers
Gavin Galasko, BM, BCh, MA, DM (Oxon), FRCP
Consultant Interventional Cardiologist
Director of Research, Development and Innovation
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Blackpool
UK
Disclosures
GG declares that he has no competing interests.
References
Key articles
Amsterdam EA, Wenger NK, Brindis RG, et al. 2014 AHA/ACC guideline for the management of patients with non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014 Dec 23;64(24):e139-228.Full text Abstract
Byrne RA, Rossello X, Coughlan JJ, et al. 2023 ESC guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes. Eur Heart J. 2023 Oct 12;44(38):3720-826.Full text Abstract
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Acute coronary syndromes. Nov 2020 [internet publication].Full text
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Recent-onset chest pain of suspected cardiac origin: assessment and diagnosis. Nov 2016 [internet publication].Full text
Reference articles
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