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Low-Tech Intervention Doubles Evidence-Based ACS Care

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FROM THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

He said the investigators are continuing to follow patients at the participating hospitals as part of an observational study and are meeting with the Brazilian Health Ministry to fund a BRIDGE-ACS II trial to assess clinical outcomes of ACS.

The study was simultaneously published (JAMA 2012 [doi:10.1001/jama.2012.413]).

This study is funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Health in partnership with Hospital do Coração. Dr. Berwanger reported no competing interests.