Critical Pathways in Cardiovascular Medicine

OVERVIEW

Goals, Design, and Implementation of Critical Pathways in Cardiovascular Medicine
Christopher P. Cannon and Patrick O'Gara

PRE-HOSPITAL CRITICAL PATHWAYS

Pre-Hospital Fibrinolysis
Freek W.A. Verheught

Regional Transfer Programs for Primary PCI
David M. Larson and Timothy D. Henry

Public Access Defibrillation
Joseph P. Ornato

CRITICAL PATHWAYS IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT

Non-ST Elevation ACS in the Emergency Department
Richard J. Ryan, Christopher P. Cannon, and W. Brian Gibler

Thrombolysis for ST-Elevation MI in the Emergency Department
Joshua M. Kosowsky

Heart Failure in the Emergency Department
Frank Peacock

Atrial Fibrillation in the Emergency Department
Ray Bahr

Stroke and TIA
Lee Schwaam

The Role of Exercise Testing in Chest Pain Units: Evolution, Application, Results
Ezra A. Amsterdam, Deborah B. Diercks, and Samuel Turnipseed

CRITICAL PATHWAYS IN THE HOSPITAL

Critical Pathway for Non-ST Elevation ACS
Christopher P. Cannon and Patrick T. O'Gara

Primary PCI
Amr Abbas and Cindy L. Grines

Primary PCI at Community Hospitals Without On-Site Cardiac Surgery
Nancy Sinclair and Thomas P. Wharton, Jr.

Approach to the Patient with Complicated Myocardial Infarction
Richard C. Becker

Cardiac Catheterization and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
Jeffrey J. Popma

Pathways for Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
Rashid M. Ahmad, Frances Wadlington, Tiffany Street, James P. Greelish, Jorge Balaguer, and John G. Byrne

Acute Aortic Syndromes
Piotr Sobieszcyk and Patrick O'Gara

Intensive Management of Hyperglycemia in ACS
Vera T. Fajtova

Management of Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter
Eyal Herzog and Joshua S. Steinberg

Heart Failure
Greg Fonarow

Device Therapy in Patients with Heart Failure: ICD, CRT
Peter J. Zimetbaum and Eli V. Gelfand

Venous Thromboembolism
Samuel Z. Goldhaber

CRITICAL PATHWAYS IN THE OUTPATIENT SETTING

Hyperlipidemia
Frederick F. Samaha and Daniel J. Rader

Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome
Emily Deborah Szmuilowicz and Merri Pendergrass

Hypertension
Michael Weber

Smoking Cessation
Beth C. Bock

Secondary Prevention Overview
Sidney Smith

Overview of the AHA Get With The Guidelines Programs
Yuling Hong and Ken Labresh

Cardiac Rehabilitation in the Post Myocardial Infarction Patient
Dan Forman