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Cardiac investigations for acute coronary syndrome
1. So What Does It Really
Mean?
Cardiac Investigation in and out of the Emergency
Department
Dr Kyle Kophamel
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
CME 25/09/2014
2. Vetrovec, 2008
A little over 50 years ago, my father had a heart attack.
He was driven to the hospital by friends after having
“indigestion” for 2 days. He spent 2 weeks as an
inpatient on an unmonitored rehabilitation ward and
was treated principally with warfarin and digitalis. He
was lucky and survived, but in that era, more than 20%
of patients with an acute myocardial infarction died
Improving Reperfusion in patients with Myocardial Infarction.
Vetrovec. 2008
3. Cardiac Investigations
History
Examination
ECG
Troponin
Exercise Stress Test
Stress ECHO
Myocardial Perfusion Scan
Stress Cardiac MRI
CT Coronary Angiogram
Coronary Angiography
AHA Scientific Statement. Testing of patients presenting to the
Emergency Department with Chest Pain. Circulation July 2010. Ezra
et al.
4. How to interpret elevated cardiac troponin levels. Circulation 2011.
Mahajan and Jarolim.
5. Exercise Treadmill Test
-Smart EM. Stress Testing Summary - Fleishman MD. Podcast and
Notes Summary.
-AHA Scientific Statement. Testing of patients presenting to the
Emergency Department with Chest Pain. Circulation July 2010. Ezra
et al.
6. Myocardial Perfusion Scan
-AHA Scientific Statement. Testing of patients presenting to the
Emergency Department with Chest Pain. Circulation July 2010. Ezra
et al.
7. CT Coronary Angiography
-CT Angiography for Safe Discharge of
patients with Possible Acute Coronary
Syndromes. Litt et al. New England
journal of Medicine,2012
-AHA Scientific Statement. Testing of
patients presenting to the Emergency
Department with Chest Pain. Circulation
July 2010. Ezra et al.
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10. So who goes where?
Hx, Exam, ECG
Clinical Suspicion
Observation vs Admission
Troponin
Timing
Risk stratification
TIMI
National Heart Foundation
HEART score
EDACS - ADP
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11. TIMI
Age >65
>3 Cardiac Risk factors
Known CAD - >50% stenosis
Elevated troponin
Aspirin use in last 7 days
>2 episodes of angina in last 24 hours
ST changes at least 0.5mm
12. TIMI
% risk at 14 days of all causes of mortality,
new/recurrent MI or ischaemia requiring PCI
0-1 = 4.7%
2 = 8.3%
3 = 13.2%
4 = 19.9%
5 = 26.2%
6-7 = 40.9%
13. NHF Australia
High Risk
CCU admission
Intermediate Risk
Provocative testing prior to discharge
Low Risk
Outpatient care
14. HEART score
History
ECG
Age
Risk factors
Troponin
-A prospective validation of the HEART score
for chest pain patient at the emergency
department. Backus et al. International journal
Cardiology. 2013
-Chest pain in the emergency department:
The value of the heart score. Six. Backus.
Neth. Heart Journal. 2008
15. Cases and Discussion
A Charlies perspective….
Accelerated diagnostic protocol.
16. Take Home
Risk stratification
Gustalt and Scoring (HEART)
Safety of Accelerated of Diagnostic Protocols
Timely follow up arrangement
GP vs Cardiologist
Hinweis der Redaktion
High sensitivity troponin has allowed us t o develop accelerated diagnostic protocols
SMART EM – thing of the past. Low risk – high FP. High risk – High FN
Sens: 68% Spec 77%.
Should be used in combination – ie with stress ECHO
SMART EM stress testing summary
Thalium 201 or technetium 99 labeled to sestamibi.
Limitations of scans include FP 2’ to artifactual perfusion defecits.
Cardiac Risk – FH, DM, HTN, lipids, Smoking
High risk applies if have any one or more of: repetitive or prolonged (>10 min) chest pain; raised troponin I or T on arrival or at 6 / 9 hours; ECG changes; haemodynamic compromise with SBP <90 mmHg, cool peripheries, sweating, Killip Class >1 heart failure; new-onset mitral regurgitation; VT; syncope; LVEF <40%; prior PCI in last 6 months or prior CABG ever; and diabetes or chronic renal failure (eGFR <60ml/min) with typical ACS symptoms. They all need CCU.
Intermediate risk applies if have no high-risk features + had chest pain in last 48 hrs that occurred at rest or was repetitive or prolonged, but now resolved; age > 65 yrs; known CAD eg prior AMI; ≥ 2 risk factors of hypertension / family history / smoker / hyperlipidaemia; and diabetes or chronic renal failure (eGFR <60ml/min) but atypical ACS symptoms. They should all have a stress test (exercise ECG or myocardial perfusion scan) before discharge, providing serial cardiac enzymes and ECGs were normal on arrival and at 6 / 9 hrs.
Low risk only applies to patients with clinical features consistent with ACS without intermediate or high-risk features (see above); and also a neg troponin + normal ECG at 0 and 6 / 9 hours. They do not need immediate stress testing, but can be discharged to outpatient care
History – suspicious – high/mod/slightly
ECG – st depression/non specific depol/normal
Age – 65/45-65/<45
Risk lipids/htn/DM/smoking/FH/obesity - >3/1-3/0
Trop - >3x/1-3x/< normal limit
Ordering of outpatient investigations. Cardiology review.
ADP