Outpatient Management of Survivors of Acute Coronary Syndromes

More patients are both suffering and surviving acute coronary syndromes. After hospital discharge, a host of interventions, including medications, therapeutic lifestyle changes, revascularization, and electrophysiologic devices improve quality of life and survival. Evidence-based management requires the general internist to have a working knowledge of these interventions and to identify patients whose outcomes would benefit from subspecialty referral.