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Acute coronary syndrome

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Therapy

Treat symptoms rather than ECG changes. d  

Why?

  • Treating silent ischaemia compared with symptomatic disease does not clearly reduce deaths, myocardial infarction, revascularisation or subsequent hospital admission. d  

 

 

Expiry date: June 2003
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Authors   CM   Ball , N   Shenker
Reviewer   I K   Jang
CAT Writers   N   Shenker , CJ   Wotton , CM   Ball , RS   Phillips