ACCA, 2013. — 124 p.We decided to design the Toolkit as simply as possible, based mostly on algorithms and tables, easy to use in the usual environments where initial acute cardiovascular care is provided (ambulances, ER, CCUs, ICUs.). The Toolkit is an instrument to help make, accurately, the first decisions when managing patients presenting with the main CV symptoms or acute CV syndromes.
Its content is based either on the latest clinical practice guidelines or the clinical experience of a number of European experts in each field when guidelines are not available. The Toolkit does not replace textbooks and other sources of information that need to be consulted to reach an optimal management of these patients.
All the effort put in by all authors and persons involved in the development of the Toolkit will be worthwhile if it means that one single additional patient with an acute CV syndrome survives or has a better outcome in Europe.
