2020 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment ...
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International audience
Questions and answers on antithrombotic therapy and revascularization strategies in non-ST-elevation acute coronary synd...
International audience
Admission of patients with STEMI since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic: a survey by the European Society of Cardio...
...Published in European heart journal. Quality of care & clinical outcomes
The COVID-19 pandemic required a significant redeployment of worldwide healthcare resources. Fear of infection, national lockdowns and altered healthcare priorities have the potential to impact utilisation of healthcare resources for non-communicable diseases. To survey health professionals' views of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the rate ...
Apps and Online Platforms for Patients with Heart Failure
Published in Cardiac Failure Review
The use of the internet for health advice and information has burgeoned over recent years. This corresponds with an increasing number of people living with heart failure and, in the context of a greater focus on patient engagement, producing accurate online health information is becoming vitally important. To help meet this need, major cardiology s...
2019 ESC/EAS Guidelines for Dyslipidaemia – What’s New?
Published in Internal Medicine
The European Society of Cardiology and the European Atherosclerotic Society are recommending in the 2019 guideline for dyslipidemia the best management strategies for an individual patient with a given condition. The guideline recommends the use of new tests to help identify high-risk patients. These include both coronary artery calcium imaging and...
European Society of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Disease Statistics 2019.
...Published in European heart journal
The 2019 report from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Atlas provides a contemporary analysis of cardiovascular disease (CVD) statistics across 56 member countries, with particular emphasis on international inequalities in disease burden and healthcare delivery together with estimates of progress towards meeting 2025 World Health Organizatio...
Questions and answers on workup diagnosis and risk stratification: a companion document of the 2020 ESC Guidelines for t...
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International audience
A systematic breakdown of the levels of evidence supporting the European Society of Cardiology guidelines.
Published in European journal of preventive cardiology
Reviews of clinical practice guidelines have repeatedly concluded that only a minority of guideline recommendations are supported by high-quality evidence from randomised controlled trials. The aim of this study is to evaluate whether these findings apply to the whole cardiovascular evidence base or specific recommendation types and actions. All re...
Unmasking Adenosine: The Purinergic Signalling Molecule Critical to Arrhythmia Pathophysiology and Management
Published in Arrhythmia & Electrophysiology Review
Adenosine was identified in 1929 and immediately recognised as having a potential role in therapy for arrhythmia because of its negative chronotropic and dromotropic effects. Adenosine entered mainstream use in the 1980s as a highly effective agent for the termination of supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) involving the atrioventricular node, as wel...
Roadmap for cardiovascular education across the European Society of Cardiology: inspiring better knowledge and skills, n...
...Published in European heart journal
The provision of high-quality education allows the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) to achieve its mission of better cardiovascular practice and provides an essential component of translating new evidence to improve outcomes. The 4th ESC Education Conference, held in Sophia Antipolis (December 2016), brought together ESC education leaders, Nati...
