Invasive Cardiac Therapies in the Elderly – Can We Raise the Bar?

We recently read a provocative publication in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) by Berg et al. titled Long-Term Outcomes of Invasive vs Conservative Strategies for Older Patients with non-ST-Segment Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome (NSTE-ACS).1 This is a long term follow-up of the patients in the After Eighty Study, originally published in 2016 in Lancet.2 The original study found that patients> 80 years old who suffered a NSTE-ACS had reduced composite events if they underwent an invasive treatment strategy rather than a conservative one of optimal medical therapy.
Source: Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research