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Revista Colombiana de Cardiología

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Abstract

SPROCKEL, John J et al. Structuring and implementation of a critical pathway for the management of patients with acute coronary syndrome in the Emergency Department of San José Hospital in Bogotá. Rev. Colomb. Cardiol. [online]. 2013, vol.20, n.5, pp.262-274. ISSN 0120-5633.

Introduction: acute coronary syndrome is a disease with high clinical impact on our environment and the world. Despite the evidence of a number of measures that benefit the outcome of these patients, it has been shown that its use is not the best. One of the strategies designed to improve this situation is the use of critical pathways, which consist of an optimal sequence guided by time of interventions performed by members of the health team for a particular procedure or diagnosis, in order to minimize delays, improve the utilization of resources and maximize the quality of health care. Methods: as part of a process of improvement of the quality of care, we decided to perform the structuring and implementation of a critical pathway in the management of acute coronary syndrome during the first 24 hours of care. To achieve this, we took into account the data observed in the literature after an extensive revision of the topic. Results: posterior to the design process, disclosure and agreement with the departments involved in the management of coronary events, and based on institutional guidelines, we structured a critical pathway consisting of three documents: the first for the initial chest pain assessment, the second for the management of coronary events with ST segment elevation and the third for coronary events without ST segment elevation. Conclusions: critical pathways have been positioned in the world as tools that highly impact the quality of care of patients with acute coronary syndrome, as they minimize delays, optimize the use of resources and control variations of such attention. We describe the structuring and implementation of a critical pathway for the management of these patients in a fourth-level hospital in Colombia.

Keywords : coronary disease; chest pain; optimal medical treatment.

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