Live Session Abstracts - Different Continent, Same Goals - Analytic Findings from International Peers - 2025 Quality Summit Presentaiton (Non-CE)-Live Session Abstracts - Different Continent, Same Goals - Analytic Findings from International Peers

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The session featured presentations from global cardiology professionals on innovative strategies to improve acute coronary syndrome (ACS) care and PCI appropriateness. Harika Nasani from India presented an AI-driven intervention that addressed gender disparities in myocardial infarction diagnosis by reducing door-to-ECG time from 58 to 28 minutes and achieving 100% documentation compliance. The system used multilingual NLP to enhance symptom capture and embedded hard stops in electronic records, leading to a 52% reduction in diagnostic delay, especially benefiting women with atypical symptoms. Dr. Sheikh Salam from Saudi Arabia detailed the "CAPACITY+" program, a hub-and-spoke model enabling rapid direct-to-cath lab access with same-day repatriation to regional hospitals. This approach overcame bed shortages by streamlining patient flow and communication via telemedicine, reducing non-STEMI intervention wait times from 130 to under 24 hours and achieving 93% PCI within guideline times. Patient outcomes improved with fewer readmissions and enhanced experience. Sahar Abdullah from Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare shared efforts to improve elective PCI appropriateness, reducing rarely appropriate procedures from 8.3% to 3.7% by integrating registry data, structured physician feedback, education, and EMR-based decision support aligned with ACC guidelines. All initiatives emphasized data-driven quality improvement, multidisciplinary teamwork, and sustainability, demonstrating scalable models to reduce treatment delays, optimize resource use, and enhance cardiac care equity globally.

Keywords

intravascular imaging

PCI

IVUS

OCT

percutaneous coronary intervention

cardiovascular care

coronary CT angiography

CTFFR

cardiac interventions

acute coronary syndrome

PCI appropriateness

AI-driven intervention

gender disparities

multilingual NLP

CAPACITY+ program

telemedicine

elective PCI

data-driven quality improvement