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Pre-hospital management of acute coronary syndrome patients in belgium and luxembourg and other western european countries: A subset analysis of results from the observational, longitudinal cohort study EPICOR

par Beauloye, Christophe;Vrolix, Mathias;Claeys, Marc;Van De Borne, Philippe ;Vandendriessche, Eef;Van De Werf, Frans Van De
Référence Acta cardiologica, 71, 1, page (15-24)
Publication Publié, 2016

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Objectives This sub-analysis of the EPICOR study describes pre-hospital care (PHC) patterns in Belgium, Luxembourg (Belux) and Western European (WEU) countries (Finland, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, UK, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain, France, Italy, Greece and Germany). Methods and results EPICOR (NCT01171404) is a multinational, observational study comprising patients with acute coronary syndrome hospitalized within 24 h of symptoms onset, diagnosed with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), non-STEMI (NSTEMI) or unstable angina (UA). Of the 325 WEU centres, 37 were in Belgium and 1 in Luxembourg. PHC was defined as pre-hospital ECG and/or pre-hospital medication (PHM). 504 Belux and 6,119 WEU patients were enrolled. Of the WEU patients 51.5% received PHC and 28.1% PHM, compared to 27.6% and 11.3% of the Belux patients. These differences were observed in both STEMI and UA/NSTEMI patients. In Belux, the most frequent PHM was acetylsalicylic acid (53 patients); only 1 patient received thrombolytics. The median time from symptoms onset to ECG was longer for Belux (2.8 h) than for WEU patients (2.4 h). PHC shortened this time by almost 1.5h. Belux patients with PHC had a shorter median time between symptoms onset and first medical attention (FMA) than WEU patients (1.0 h vs 1.3 h). Only 34.7% of Belux patients with pre-hospital ECGandwith timefrom FMA to ECG available had ECG within 10minutesofFMA,as recommended by the European Society of Cardiology. Conclusions In Belux, diagnostic ECG is delayed compared to WEU, despite the short time to FMA. Few patients undergo ECG within the recommended period, indicating room for improvement.