The Midwest STEMI Consortium - 2021 Quality Summit presentation (Non-CE)-The Midwest STEMI Consortium

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In the video, Dr. Santiago Garcia presents the Midwest Stemming Consortium (MSC), a collaboration of four regional stemming programs aimed at addressing limitations in current stemming registries. These registries lack consistency and may exclude important subsets of patients, such as those with cardiac arrest and cardiogenic shock. The MSC includes four sites in the Upper Midwest, with six PCI-capable hospitals and over 100 affiliated non-PCI-capable centers. The MSC utilizes standardized protocols for patient enrollment, transfer, and treatment, with a focus on timely reperfusion. The consortium maintains an ongoing database with detailed clinical, geographic, and follow-up information. Dr. Garcia discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on STEMI activations and presents findings from the National COVID-19 and ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (NACMI) registry, which examines treatment characteristics and outcomes of STEMI patients with COVID-19. The registry highlights the high mortality rate in this patient population. Dr. Garcia concludes by expressing gratitude to the American College of Cardiology for their support.

Keywords

Midwest Stemming Consortium

stemming registries

patient subsets

COVID-19 pandemic

NACMI registry

mortality rate