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Secondary prevention of Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) Scales that estimate benefit Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) risk score – 2000 Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) risk score – 1999 Platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa in Unstable angina: Receptor Suppression Using Integrilin (PURSUIT) risk score – 1999 Scales that estimate risk (no known scale) . . . Read more

Objectives TIMI Assessing risk of mortality, recurrent MI of patients with acute coronary syndrome GRACE Assessing risk of in-hospital death of patients with acute coronary syndrome Pursuit Assessing risk of 30-day mortality or infarction of patients with acute coronary syndrome Variables TIMI (1 point for each) Age > 65 >3 . . . Read more

Note: Framingham Risk Score has multiple versions that predicts different outcomes and is one of the first scores to be developed in this category. ASSIGN was developed by Scotland because it was found that the Framingham score developed using population studies from the US overestimates risk in the UK. Also, . . . Read more

Types of open-heart surgery: Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) Heart valve repair or replacement (aortic or mitral valve) Congenital heart defect repair Heart muscle disease surgery Pericarditis surgery Objectives The Ontario scoring system (source: http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/91/3/677.long) For predicting risk of mortality, ICU length of stay, and overall PostOp length of stay following . . . Read more

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