Pre-operative risk assessment scales Scales developed for general cardiac surgery Scales that estimate benefit (no known scale) Scales that estimate cost The Ontario scoring system – 1995 European system for cardiac operative risk evaluation (euroSCORE II) – 2011 The Parsonnet score – 1989 Cleveland Clinic score – 1992 French score – 1995 Quality Measurement and . . . Read more

Post cardiac event Quality of Life (QOL) Seattle Angina Questionnaire (SAQ) Quality of life after myocardial infarction – 1994 MacNew Heart Disease questionnaire – 2004 Minnesota Living with Heart Failure (MLHF) questionnaire – 1986 Myocardial Infarction Dimensional Assessment Scale (MIDAS) – 2002 Cardiovascular Limitations and Symptoms Profile (CLASP) Physical Activity Score

Background info: Summary To manage the huge range of existing cardiovascular health measurement scales, this page will act as a database to gather them into the following categories:– Primary prevention– Pre-operative risk assessment– Post-cardiac event Quality of Life– Secondary prevention Within each category, scales are split into benefit and cost scales asdefined in Structure of . . . Read more

List of scales Heart Failure Survival Score (awaiting contributions) Seattle Angina Questionnaire (SAQ) (awaiting contributions) Quality of life after myocardial infarction (awaiting contributions) MacNew Heart Disease questionnaire (awaiting contributions) Minnesota Living with Heart Failure (MLHF) questionnaire (awaiting contributions) Myocardial Infarction Dimensional Assessment Scale (MIDAS) (awaiting contributions) Cardiovascular Limitations and Symptoms Profile (CLASP) (awaiting contributions) Physical Activity Score (awaiting . . . Read more

Introduction Heart valve surgery has an associated in-hospital mortality rate of 4% to 8% [1] List of Scales The Society of Thoracic Surgeons risk scale Available here Veterans Administrative Risk Score EuroSCORE model Parsonnet score Ambler Score [1] Generic, simple risk stratification model for heart valve surgery. Ambler G, Omar RZ, . . . Read more

10-year risk versus lifetime risk You may have noticed that some scales, such as the Framingham and SCORE scales, uses 10-year cardiovascular risk as their end-point of measurement. The major limitation of these scales is that they miss many people (mainly younger people and women) with substantial lifetime risk but . . . Read more

Background info: JBS2 JBS3 is an update of JBS2 published by the Joint British Societies. A unique aspect of JBS3 is the emphasis upon the lifetime risk of CVD events while previously, all the risk scales developed were used to predict risk of CVD events within a specific time frame . . . Read more

Background info: SCORE Two types of SCORE risk charts: Low risk charts to be used in: Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. High risk charts to . . . Read more

Background info: ETHRISK® ETHRISK® is the recalibration of Framingham-Anderson risk score to estimate 10 year risk of CHD and CVD in seven British black and minority ethnic groups. Due to the lack of suitable cohort studies containing black and minority ethnic group, the risk calculator is currently awaiting peer review . . . Read more