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ESC Guidelines for the management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation

Authors	STEG Gabriel KALA Petr JAMES Stefan K. ATAR Dan BADANO Luigi P. BLOMSTROM-LUNDQVIST Carina BORGER Michael A. DI MARIO Carlo DICKSTEIN Kenneth DUCROCQ Gregory FERNANDEZ-AVILES Francisco GERSHLICK Anthony H. GIANNUZZI Pantaleo HALVORSEN Sigrun HUBER Kurt JUNI Peter KASTRATI Adnan KNUUTI Juhani LENZEN Mattie J MAHAFFEY Kenneth W. VALGIMIGLI Marco VAN´T HOF Arnoud WIDIMSKÝ Petr ZAHGER Doron
Year of publication	2012
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	European Heart Journal
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Medicine
Citation
Web	http://www.escardio.org/guidelines-surveys/esc-guidelines/GuidelinesDocuments/Guidelines_AMI_STEMI.pdf
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehs215
Field	Cardiovascular diseases incl. cardiosurgery
Keywords	Guidelines; Acute myocardial infarction; ST-segment elevation; Acute coronary syndromes; Ischaemic heart disease; Reperfusion therapy; Primary percutaneous coronary intervention; Antithrombotic therapy; Secondary prevention
Attached files	Guidelines_AMI_STEMI.pdf
Description	Guidelines summarize and evaluate all available evidence at the time of the writing process on a particular issue, with the aim of assisting physicians in selecting the best management strategies for an individual patient with a given condition, taking into account the impact on outcome, as well as the risk–benefit ratio of particular diagnostic or therapeutic means. Guidelines are not substitutes but are complements for textbooks and cover the ESC Core Curriculum topics. Guidelines and recommendations should help physicians to make decisions in their daily practice. However, the final decisions concerning an individual patient must be made by the responsible physician(s). A great number of guidelines have been issued in recent years by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), as well as by other societies and organizations. Because of their impact on clinical practice, quality criteria for the development of guidelines have been established, in order to make all decisions transparent to the user. The recommendations for formulating and issuing ESC guidelines can be found on the ESC web site (http://www.escardio.org/ guidelines-surveys/esc-guidelines/about/Pages/rules-writing.aspx). ESC guidelines represent the official position of the ESC on a given topic and are regularly updated.