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Belur AD, Mehta A, Bansal M, Wieruszewski PM, Kataria R, Saad M, Clancy A, Levine DJ, Sodha NR, Burtt DM, Rachu GS, Abbott JD, Vallabhajosyula S. Palliative care in the cardiovascular intensive care unit: A systematic review of current literature. CARDIOVASCULAR REVASCULARIZATION MEDICINE 2024; 66:68-73. [PMID: 38531709 DOI: 10.1016/j.carrev.2024.03.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2024] [Revised: 03/21/2024] [Accepted: 03/22/2024] [Indexed: 03/28/2024]
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BACKGROUND There has been an evolution in the disease severity and complexity of patients presenting to the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU). There are limited data evaluating the role of palliative care in contemporary CICU practice. METHODS PubMed Central, CINAHL, EMBASE, Medline, Cochrane Library, Scopus, and Web of Science databases were evaluated for studies on palliative care in adults (≥18 years) admitted with acute cardiovascular conditions - acute myocardial infarction, cardiogenic shock, cardiac arrest, advanced heart failure, post-cardiac surgery, spontaneous coronary artery dissection, Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, and pulmonary embolism - admitted to the CICU, coronary care unit or cardiovascular intensive care unit from 1/1/2000 to 8/8/2022. The primary outcome of interest was the utilization of palliative care services. Secondary outcomes of included studies were also addressed. Meta-analysis was not performed due to heterogeneity. RESULTS Of 5711 citations, 30 studies were included. All studies were published in the last seven years and 90 % originated in the United States. Twenty-seven studies (90 %) were retrospective analyses, with a majority from the National Inpatient Sample database. Heart failure was the most frequent diagnosis (47 %), and in-hospital mortality was reported in 67 % of studies. There was heterogeneity in the timing, frequency, and background of the care team that determined palliative care consultation. In two randomized trials, there appeared to be improvement in quality of life without an impact on mortality. CONCLUSIONS Despite the growing recognition of the role of palliative care, there are limited data on palliative care consultation in the CICU.
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- Agastya D Belur
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, United States of America
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- Departments of Pharmacy and Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States of America
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, United States of America; Lifespan Cardiovascular Institute, Providence, RI, United States of America
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, United States of America; Lifespan Cardiovascular Institute, Providence, RI, United States of America
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- Department of Pharmacy, Lifespan Health System, Providence, RI, United States of America
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, United States of America; Lifespan Cardiovascular Institute, Providence, RI, United States of America
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- Lifespan Cardiovascular Institute, Providence, RI, United States of America; Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, United States of America
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, United States of America; Lifespan Cardiovascular Institute, Providence, RI, United States of America
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- Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Department of Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, United States of America
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, United States of America; Lifespan Cardiovascular Institute, Providence, RI, United States of America
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, United States of America; Lifespan Cardiovascular Institute, Providence, RI, United States of America.
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Rammos A, Bechlioulis A, Chatzipanteliadou S, Sioros SA, Floros CD, Stamou I, Lakkas L, Kalogeras P, Bouratzis V, Katsouras CS, Michalis LK, Naka KK. The Role of Prognostic Scores in Assessing the Prognosis of Patients Admitted in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit: Emphasis on Heart Failure Patients. J Clin Med 2024; 13:2982. [PMID: 38792523 PMCID: PMC11122418 DOI: 10.3390/jcm13102982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2024] [Revised: 04/28/2024] [Accepted: 05/15/2024] [Indexed: 05/26/2024] Open
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Background/Objectives: Patient care in Cardiac Intensive Care Units (CICU) has evolved but data on patient characteristics and outcomes are sparse. This retrospective observational study aimed to define clinical characteristics and risk factors of CICU patients, their in-hospital and 30-day mortality, and compare it with established risk scores. Methods: Consecutive patients (n = 294, mean age 70 years, 74% males) hospitalized within 15 months were studied; APACHE II, EHMRG, GWTG-HF, and GRACE II were calculated on admission. Results: Most patients were admitted for ACS (48.3%) and acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) (31.3%). Median duration of hospitalization was 2 days (IQR = 1, 4). In-hospital infection occurred in 20%, 18% needed mechanical ventilation, 10% renal replacement therapy and 4% percutaneous ventricular assist devices (33%, 29%, 20% and 4%, respectively, for ADHF). In-hospital and 30-day mortality was 18% and 11% for all patients (29% and 23%, respectively, for ADHF). Established scores (especially APACHE II) had a good diagnostic accuracy (area under the curve-AUC). In univariate and multivariate analyses in-hospital intubation and infection, history of coronary artery disease, hypotension, uremia and hypoxemia on admission were the most important risk factors. Based on these, a proposed new score showed a diagnostic accuracy of 0.954 (AUC) for in-hospital mortality, outperforming previous scores. Conclusions: Patients are admitted mainly with ACS or ADHF, the latter with worse prognosis. Several patients need advanced support; intubation and infections adversely affect prognosis. Established scores predict mortality satisfactorily, but larger studies are needed to develop CICU-directed scores to identify risk factors, improve prediction, guide treatment and staff training.
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- Second Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina and University Hospital of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece; (A.R.); (A.B.); (S.C.); (S.A.S.); (C.D.F.); (I.S.); (L.L.); (P.K.); (V.B.); (C.S.K.); (L.K.M.)
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Sacco A, Pagnesi M, Frea S, Briani M, Dini CS, Bertaina M, Marini M, Trombara F, Villanova L, Ravera A, Tavazzi G, Pappalardo F, Morici N, Potena L. Transitioning to Palliative Care in an Italian Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Network. Am J Crit Care 2024; 33:145-148. [PMID: 38424013 DOI: 10.4037/ajcc2024535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/02/2024]
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BACKGROUND Recent data indicate that end-of-life management for patients affected by acute decompensated heart failure in cardiac intensive care units is aggressive, with late or no engagement of palliative care teams. OBJECTIVE To assess current palliative care and end-of-life practices in a contemporary Italian multicenter registry of patients with cardiogenic shock due to acute decompensated heart failure. METHODS A survey-based approach was used to collect data on palliative care and end-of-life management practices. The AltShock-2 registry enrolled patients with cardiogenic shock from 12 participating centers. A subset of 153 patients with cardiogenic shock due to acute decompensated heart failure enrolled between March 2020 and March 2023 was analyzed, with a focus on early engagement of palliative care teams and deactivation of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs). RESULTS "Do not resuscitate" orders were documented in patient records in only 5 of 12 centers (42%). Palliative care teams were engaged for 21 of 153 enrolled patients (13.7%). Among the 51 patients with ICDs, 6 of 17 patients who died (35%) had defibrillator deactivation. Of the 17 patients who died, 13 died in the hospital and 4 died within 6 months after discharge; 1 patient had ICD deactivation supported by palliative care services at home. CONCLUSIONS Therapy-limiting practices, including ICD deactivation, are not routine in the Italian centers participating in this study. The results emphasize the importance of integrating palliative care as a simultaneous process with intensive care to address the unmet needs of these patients and their families.
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- Alice Sacco
- Alice Sacco is a physician, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, De Gasperis Cardio Center, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy
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- Matteo Pagnesi is a physician, Cardiology, ASST Spedali Civili, Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences, and Public Health, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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- Simone Frea is a physician, Intensive Cardiac Care Unit, Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Turin, Italy
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- Martina Briani is a physician, IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital Rozzano, Milan, Italy
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- Carlotta Sorini Dini is a physician, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medical Biotechnologies, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
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- Maurizio Bertaina is a physician, Division of Cardiology, San Giovanni Bosco Hospital, ASL Città di Torino, Turin, Italy
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- Marco Marini is a physician, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Clinic of Cardiology, Ospedali Riuniti, Ancona, Italy
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- Filippo Trombara is a physician, Centro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, Milan, Italy
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- Luca Villanova is a physician, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, De Gasperis Cardio Center, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy
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- Amelia Ravera is a physician, Department of Cardiology, "San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi D'Aragona" Hopital-University, Salerno, Italy
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- Guido Tavazzi is a physician, Department of Clinical-Surgical, Diagnostic and Paediatric Sciences, Unit of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University of Pavia Italy Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Fondazione Policlinico San Matteo Hospital IRCCS, Anestesia e Rianimazione I, Pavia, Italy
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- Federico Pappalardo is a physician, Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Azienda Ospedaliera Nazionale Santi Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo, Alessandria, Italy
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- Nuccia Morici is a physician, IRCCS S. Maria Nascente-Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus, Milan, Italy
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- Luciano Potena is a physician, Heart Failure and Transplant Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Kaur G, Berg DD. The Changing Epidemiology of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. Crit Care Clin 2024; 40:1-13. [PMID: 37973347 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccc.2023.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2023]
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Coronary care units (CCUs) were originally designed to monitor and treat peri-infarction ventricular arrhythmias but have evolved into highly specialized cardiac intensive care units (CICUs) that provide care to a patient population that is increasingly heterogeneous and complex. Paralleling broader epidemiologic trends, patients admitted to contemporary CICUs are older and have a greater burden of cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular comorbidities. Moreover, contemporary CICU patients have high illness severity and often present with acute noncardiac organ dysfunction. In addition to these shifting demographic patterns, there have been important epidemiologic changes in CICU technologies, multidisciplinary systems of care, and physician staffing and training.
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- Gurleen Kaur
- Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Levine Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, TIMI Study Group, 60 Fenwood Road, Suite 7022, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Giffard M, VAN Bulck L, Seydou Sall F, Becoulet N, Quenot JP, Seronde MF, Ecarnot F. Profiles of patients referred to specialized palliative care from the cardiology department at a university hospital: an 11-year longitudinal retrospective study. Panminerva Med 2023; 65:467-472. [PMID: 37212751 DOI: 10.23736/s0031-0808.23.04829-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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BACKGROUND Although the majority of patients with cardiovascular diseases (CVD) have a significant symptom burden and progressive course towards the end of life, only a small proportion of patients currently receive palliative care. The current referral practices to palliative care from the cardiology department need to be scrutinized. The current study aimed to examine: 1) the clinical profile; 2) time between referral to palliative care and death; and 3) place of death for CVD patients who were referred to palliative care from a cardiology department. METHODS This retrospective descriptive study included all patients who were referred to the mobile palliative care team from the cardiology unit in the University Hospital of Besançon in France between January 2010 and December 2020. Information was extracted from the medical hospital files. RESULTS A total of 142 patients were included, of whom 135 (95%) died. The mean age at the time of death was 76±14 years. The median time between referral to palliative care and death was 9 days. Most patients had chronic heart failure (54%). A total of 17 patients (13%) died at home. CONCLUSIONS This study showed that referral of patients to palliative care from the cardiology department is suboptimal and a large proportion of patients die in the hospital setting. Further prospective studies are warranted to investigate whether these dispositions correspond to patients' wishes and end-of-life care needs, and should investigate how the integration of palliative care into the care of cardiovascular patients can be improved.
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- Mathilde Giffard
- Mobile Palliative Care Team, University Hospital Besançon, Besançon, France
- Inserm CIC1431, University Hospital Besançon, Besançon, France
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Brussels, Belgium
- EA3920, University of Burgundy Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
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- Inserm CIC1431, University Hospital Besançon, Besançon, France
- Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Besançon, Besançon, France
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- Mobile Palliative Care Team, University Hospital Besançon, Besançon, France
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- Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital Dijon-Bourgogne, Dijon, France
- Inserm CIC1432, module Épidémiologie Clinique (CIC-EC), University Hospital Dijon-Bourgogne, Dijon, France
- Lipness Team, INSERM Research Centre LNC-UMR1231 and LabEx LipSTIC, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France
- Espace de Réflexion Éthique Bourgogne Franche-Comté (EREBFC), Dijon, France
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- EA3920, University of Burgundy Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
- Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Besançon, Besançon, France
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- EA3920, University of Burgundy Franche-Comté, Besançon, France -
- Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Besançon, Besançon, France
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Bouchlarhem A, Bazid Z, Ismaili N, El Ouafi N. Cardiac intensive care unit: where we are in 2023. Front Cardiovasc Med 2023; 10:1201414. [PMID: 38075954 PMCID: PMC10704904 DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2023.1201414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2023] [Accepted: 11/03/2023] [Indexed: 01/19/2024] Open
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Cardiac intensive care has been a constantly evolving area of research and innovation since the beginning of the 21st century. The story began in 1961 with Desmond Julian's pioneering creation of a coronary intensive care unit to improve the prognosis of patients with myocardial infarction, considered the major cause of death in the world. These units have continued to progress over time, with the introduction of new therapeutic means such as fibrinolysis, invasive hemodynamic monitoring using the Swan-Ganz catheter, and mechanical circulatory assistance, with significant advances in percutaneous interventional coronary and structural procedures. Since acute cardiovascular disease is not limited to the management of acute coronary syndromes and includes other emergencies such as severe arrhythmias, acute heart failure, cardiogenic shock, high-risk pulmonary embolism, severe conduction disorders, and post-implantation monitoring of percutaneous valves, as well as other non-cardiac emergencies, such as septic shock, severe respiratory failure, severe renal failure and the management of cardiac arrest after resuscitation, the conversion of coronary intensive care units into cardiac intensive care units represented an important priority. Today, the cardiac intensive care units (CICU) concept is widely adopted by most healthcare systems, whatever the country's level of development. The main aim of these units remains to improve the overall morbidity and mortality of acute cardiovascular diseases, but also to manage other non-cardiac disorders, such as sepsis and respiratory failure. This diversity of tasks and responsibilities has enabled us to classify these CICUs according to several levels, depending on a variety of parameters, principally the level of care delivered, the staff assigned, the equipment and technologies available, the type of research projects carried out, and the type of connections and networking developed. The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC) have detailed this organization in guidelines published initially in 2005 and updated in 2018, with the aim of harmonizing the structure, organization, and care offered by the various CICUs. In this state-of-the-art report, we review the history of the CICUs from the creation of the very first unit in 1968 to the discussion of their current perspectives, with the main objective of knowing what the CICUs will have become by 2023.
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- Amine Bouchlarhem
- Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Mohammed First University, Oujda, Morocco
- Department of Cardiology, Mohammed VI University Hospital, Mohammed First University, Oujda, Morocco
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- Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Mohammed First University, Oujda, Morocco
- Department of Cardiology, Mohammed VI University Hospital, Mohammed First University, Oujda, Morocco
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- Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Mohammed First University, Oujda, Morocco
- Department of Cardiology, Mohammed VI University Hospital, Mohammed First University, Oujda, Morocco
- Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, LAMCESM, Mohammed First University, Oujda, Morocco
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- Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Mohammed First University, Oujda, Morocco
- Department of Cardiology, Mohammed VI University Hospital, Mohammed First University, Oujda, Morocco
- Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, LAMCESM, Mohammed First University, Oujda, Morocco
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Sacco A, Tavecchia G, Ditali V, Garatti L, Villanova L, Colombo C, Viola G, Scavelli F, Varrenti M, Milani M, Morici N, Tavazzi G, Lissoni B, Forni L, Gorni G, Saporetti G, Oliva F. Effect of a quality-improvement intervention on end-of-life care in cardiac intensive care unit. Eur J Clin Invest 2023:e13982. [PMID: 36912206 DOI: 10.1111/eci.13982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2023] [Revised: 02/17/2023] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 03/14/2023]
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- Alice Sacco
- "De Gasperis" Cardio Center, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy
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- "De Gasperis" Cardio Center, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy
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- "De Gasperis" Cardio Center, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy
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- "De Gasperis" Cardio Center, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy
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- "De Gasperis" Cardio Center, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy
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- "De Gasperis" Cardio Center, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy
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- "De Gasperis" Cardio Center, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy
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- "De Gasperis" Cardio Center, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy
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- "De Gasperis" Cardio Center, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy
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- S. Maria Nascente-Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS, Milan, Italy
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- Unit of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Department of Clinical-Surgical, Diagnostic and Paediatric Sciences, University of Pavia Italy.,Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
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- Clinical Psicology Unit, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy
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- Comitato per l'Etica di Fine Vita, Milan, Italy.,School of Law, Università Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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- Palliative Care Unit, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy
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- Quality and Risk Management, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy
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- "De Gasperis" Cardio Center, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy
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Damluji AA, Forman DE, Wang TY, Chikwe J, Kunadian V, Rich MW, Young BA, Page RL, DeVon HA, Alexander KP. Management of Acute Coronary Syndrome in the Older Adult Population: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. Circulation 2023; 147:e32-e62. [PMID: 36503287 DOI: 10.1161/cir.0000000000001112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 64.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Diagnostic and therapeutic advances during the past decades have substantially improved health outcomes for patients with acute coronary syndrome. Both age-related physiological changes and accumulated cardiovascular risk factors increase the susceptibility to acute coronary syndrome over a lifetime. Compared with younger patients, outcomes for acute coronary syndrome in the large and growing demographic of older adults are relatively worse. Increased atherosclerotic plaque burden and complexity of anatomic disease, compounded by age-related cardiovascular and noncardiovascular comorbid conditions, contribute to the worse prognosis observed in older individuals. Geriatric syndromes, including frailty, multimorbidity, impaired cognitive and physical function, polypharmacy, and other complexities of care, can undermine the therapeutic efficacy of guidelines-based treatments and the resiliency of older adults to survive and recover, as well. In this American Heart Association scientific statement, we (1) review age-related physiological changes that predispose to acute coronary syndrome and management complexity; (2) describe the influence of commonly encountered geriatric syndromes on cardiovascular disease outcomes; and (3) recommend age-appropriate and guideline-concordant revascularization and acute coronary syndrome management strategies, including transitions of care, the use of cardiac rehabilitation, palliative care services, and holistic approaches. The primacy of individualized risk assessment and patient-centered care decision-making is highlighted throughout.
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Metkus TS, Baird-Zars VM, Alfonso CE, Alviar CL, Barnett CF, Barsness GW, Berg DD, Bertic M, Bohula EA, Burke J, Burstein B, Chaudhry SP, Cooper HA, Daniels LB, Fordyce CB, Ghafghazi S, Goldfarb M, Katz JN, Keeley EC, Keller NM, Kenigsberg B, Kontos MC, Kwon Y, Lawler PR, Leibner E, Liu S, Menon V, Miller PE, Newby LK, O'Brien CG, Papolos AI, Pierce MJ, Prasad R, Pisani B, Potter BJ, Roswell RO, Sinha SS, Shah KS, Smith TD, Snell RJ, So D, Solomon MA, Ternus BW, Teuteberg JJ, van Diepen S, Zakaria S, Morrow DA. Critical Care Cardiology Trials Network (CCCTN): a cohort profile. EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL. QUALITY OF CARE & CLINICAL OUTCOMES 2022; 8:703-708. [PMID: 36029517 PMCID: PMC9603535 DOI: 10.1093/ehjqcco/qcac055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2022] [Revised: 08/23/2022] [Accepted: 08/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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AIMS The aims of the Critical Care Cardiology Trials Network (CCCTN) are to develop a registry to investigate the epidemiology of cardiac critical illness and to establish a multicentre research network to conduct randomised clinical trials (RCTs) in patients with cardiac critical illness. METHODS AND RESULTS The CCCTN was founded in 2017 with 16 centres and has grown to a research network of over 40 academic and clinical centres in the United States and Canada. Each centre enters data for consecutive cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) admissions for at least 2 months of each calendar year. More than 20 000 unique CICU admissions are now included in the CCCTN Registry. To date, scientific observations from the CCCTN Registry include description of variations in care, the epidemiology and outcomes of all CICU patients, as well as subsets of patients with specific disease states, such as shock, heart failure, renal dysfunction, and respiratory failure. The CCCTN has also characterised utilization patterns, including use of mechanical circulatory support in response to changes in the heart transplantation allocation system, and the use and impact of multidisciplinary shock teams. Over years of multicentre collaboration, the CCCTN has established a robust research network to facilitate multicentre registry-based randomised trials in patients with cardiac critical illness. CONCLUSION The CCCTN is a large, prospective registry dedicated to describing processes-of-care and expanding clinical knowledge in cardiac critical illness. The CCCTN will serve as an investigational platform from which to conduct randomised controlled trials in this important patient population.
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- Thomas S Metkus
- Divisions of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Departments of Medicine and Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Levine Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, TIMI Study Group, Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine; University of Miami Hospital & Clinics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York 10016 NY, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55902, USA
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- Levine Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, TIMI Study Group, Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- University of Toronto Etobicoke,Toronto ON, Canada
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- Levine Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, TIMI Study Group, Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Lehigh Valley Heart Institute, Allentown, PA 18103, USA
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- Westchester Medical Center and New York Medical College, Valhalla NY 10901, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine La Jolla, UCSD, San Diego, CA 92037, USA
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- UBC Centre for Cardiovascular Innovation, Cardiovascular Health Program, UBC Centre for Health Evaluation & Outcomes Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Division of Cardiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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- Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Bellevue Hospital, New York NY 10016, USA
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- Departments of Cardiology and Critical Care Medicine, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington DC, WA 20010, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23219, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
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- Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto ON, Canada
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Max Rady College of Medicine St. Boniface Hospital Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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- Divison of Cardiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Departments of Cardiology and Critical Care Medicine, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington DC, WA 20010, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Long Island, NY 11549, USA
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- Wellstar Cardiovascular Medicine, Marietta, GA 30060, USA
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- Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, Inova Fairfax Medical Center, Falls Church, VA 22042, USA
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- University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, USA
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- The Christ Hospital and Lindner Institute for Research and Education Cincinnati, OH 45219, USA
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- University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53792, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA 94305, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Levine Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, TIMI Study Group, Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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van Diepen S, Horowitz JM. Multiple Layers of Care and Risk: Comparing Cross-Specialty Outcomes Using Regional, Hospital, and Patient-Level Data. JACC. ADVANCES 2022; 1:100115. [PMID: 38939699 PMCID: PMC11198560 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacadv.2022.100115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/29/2024]
Affiliation(s)
- Sean van Diepen
- Department of Critical Care Medicine and Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Canadian VIGOUR Center, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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Bueno H. Managing end of life in intensive cardiac care units. EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL. ACUTE CARDIOVASCULAR CARE 2022; 11:198-200. [PMID: 35060599 DOI: 10.1093/ehjacc/zuac003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Héctor Bueno
- Critical Cardiovascular Care Unit, Cardiology Department, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre & Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Hospital, 12 de Octubre (imas12), Av. de Córdoba, s/n, 28041-Madrid, Spain
- Multidisciplinary Translational Cardiovascular Research Group, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Melchor Fernandez Almagro, 3. 28029 - Madrid, Spain
- Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Complutense, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre. Av. de Córdoba, s/n, 28041-Madrid, Spain
- CIBER de Enfermedades CardioVasculares (CIBERCV), Madrid, Spain
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