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Cardiology Insights 2019
Journal of Heart and Cardiovascular Research
ISSN: 2576-1455
Page 27
March 07-08, 2019
Berlin, Germany
New Horizons in Cardiology
& Cardiologists Education
22
nd
International Conference on
Usefulness of Google Forms platform to improve
communication in acute coronary syndromes in a health
care system
Bruno L R Faillace, Adriano O Tamazato, Leonardo Coelhor,
Evandro K P Ribeiro, Alexandre R Sposito, Fabio Conejo, Roger R Godinho
and
Rodrigo B Esper
Sancta Maggiore Hospital, Brazil
Statement
: Telemedicine is an important tool that may
facilitate the communication between the emergency
room (ER) and the reference interventional cardiology
teamto improve thequality of treatment in acute coronary
syndromes (ACS) scenario.
Methodology & Theoretical Orientation
: In a health
care system with 8 hospitals, 6 ER departments and
one reference cardiac laboratory catheterization, a
questionnaire was developed using a Google Forms
platform that contains the administrative and medical
patient’s information, ER phone number, and type of
ACS. The interventional cardiology team receives and
visualizes at the same time the answers of the Google
Forms in a table. After reviewing the patient case using
the same ER electronic medical record, the interventional
teammakesaphonecontacttotheERphysicians,discuss
the case and evaluates the possibility of performing an
immediately coronarography. All patients with ACS were
added in the Google Forms platform.
Findings
: A number of 1365 consecutive patients were
included with ACS from September 2017 to October
2018. Of these, 1096 individuals were diagnosed with
non-ST elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) and
269 with ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).
Mean age was 72 years. After the discussion, 927 were
directly referred for coronary angiography and 424 were
to be evaluated and monitored by the cardiology team to
decide the stratification strategy. The average time from
ER entrance to CathLab was 2040 minutes before the
implementation of the Google Forms in ACS admission.
After the introduction of this protocol, the time fell to 449
minutes.
Conclusion & Significance
: The Google Forms platform
can be a useful tool to improve communication between
the emergency department and the interventional
cardiology team, and can optimize the treatment of the
ACS patients.
Recent Publications
1. Faillace B L R, Ribeiro H B, Campos C M, Truffa
A A M, Bernardi F L, Oliveira M D P, Mariani J
Jr., Marchini J F, Tarasoutchi F and Lemos P A
(2017) Potential of transcatheter aortic valve
replacement to improve post-procedure renal
function. Cardiovasc Revasc Med. 18(7):507-
511.
2. Bruno L R Faillace, Micheli Z Galon, Marcos
Danillo P Oliveira, Guy F A Prado Jr., Adriano
A M Truffa, Expedito E Ribeiro and Pedro A
Lemos (2015) Left main compression by a
giant aneurysm of the left sinus of valsalva: an
extremely rare reason for myocardial infarction
and cardiogenic shock. Case Rep Cardiol.
Bruno L R Faillace et al., J Heart Cardiovasc Res 2019, Volume 3
DOI: 10.21767/2576-1455-C1-002