Goodness of Clinical History During Stemi PCI
Goodness of Clinical History During Stemi PCI
The purpose of this study is to confirm or confute the hypothesis that in patients treated
 with primary pci is not always possible to collect an adequate medical history, the
 investigators created a clinical registry in which the investigators collect current or
 previous medical history relevant to DES utilization , in two distinct times.
GHOST Registry

 Use of drug-eluting stent (DES) in STEMI is sometimes limited, by the concern that adequate
 information, relating to the current or previous medical history, can not be obtained due to
 the patient's critical condition. A less than adequate medical history would expose patients
 treated with DES to a particular risk in case that an absolute or relative contraindication
 to the required long-term double antiplatelet therapy is not fully elucidated before DES
 implantation.

 To confirm or confute the hypothesis that in patients treated with primary pci is not always
 possible to collect an adequate medical history, we created a clinical registry in which we
 collect current or previous medical history relevant to DES utilization , in two distinct
 times:

 Time zero in which the medical history collection is taken in the cath-lab during the primary
 pci

 Time one in which the second medical history collection is taken 4 days after the index
 procedure when the patient clinical conditions no longer impede an adequate medical history
 collection.
Inclusion Criteria:

 -  All consecutive patients presenting with STEMI treated with primary or rescue PCI

 Exclusion Criteria:

 -  Patient in cardiogenic shock and all those patients unable to communicate with the
 doctors at the moment of medical history taking