Title: The Task Force for the management of acute coronary syndromes in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment elevation of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)

Biography:

Dr Jean-Philippe Collet is a Professor of Cardiology at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital (APHP) where he leads the interventional catheterization unit (PCI and TAVI). He is also the director of Cardiovascular Training Program at Sorbonne Université. His main expertise is in the field of thrombosis, the effect of antithrombotic agents and the development of new devices for structural heart intervention. He is a member and a founder of the Academic Research Organisation A.C.T.I.O.N (Alliés in Cardiovascular Trials, Initiatives and Organized Networks) (www.action-coeur.org). He has led clinical trials as a principal investigator (AMERICA, DOSAPI, ARCTIC and ATLANTIS). He has several commitments in the ESC. He is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, a member of the nucleus of the WG Thrombosis and a member of the Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee. He has served as the Chair of the EAPCI scientific program for two years and is now co-chairing the upcoming guidelines on NSTE-ACS.

Abstract

Guidelines summarize and evaluate available evidence with the aim of assisting health professionals in proposing the best management strategies for an individual patient with a given condition. Guidelines and their recommendations should facilitate decision making of health professionals in their daily practice. However, the final decisions concerning an individual patient must be made by the responsible health professional(s) in consultation with the patient and caregiver as appropriate. 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 website (https://www.escardio.org/Guidelines/ Clinical-Practice-Guidelines/Guidelines-development/Writing-ESCGuidelines). The ESC Guidelines represent the official position of the ESC on a given topic and are regularly updated. In addition to the publication of Clinical Practice Guidelines, the ESC carries out the EurObservational Research Programme of international registries of cardiovascular diseases and interventions which are essential to assess, diagnostic/therapeutic processes, use of resources and adherence to Guidelines. These registries aim at providing a better understanding of medical practice in Europe and around the world, based on high-quality data collected during routine clinical practice. Furthermore, the ESC has developed and embedded in this document a set of quality indicators (QIs), which are tools to evaluate the level of implementation of the Guidelines and may be used by the ESC, hospitals, healthcare providers and professionals to measure clinical practice as well as used in educational programmes, alongside the key messages from the guidelines, to improve quality of care and clinical outcomes

Keywords: Guidelines, acute cardiac care, acute coronary syndrome, angioplasty, anticoagulation, antiplatelet, apixaban, aspirin, atherothrombosis, betablockers, bleedings, bivalirudin, bypass surgery, cangrelor, chest pain unit, clopidogrel, dabigatran, diabetes, dual antithrombotic therapy, early invasive strategy, edoxaban, enoxaparin, European Society of Cardiology