NSTEMI Guideline During the Covid-19 Pandemia, the Missing Piece What’s New in the 2020 ESC Practice Guidelines?

According to tradition, every year, at the Congress of the European Society of Cardiology new clinical guidelines, usefull for our daily pratice, are launched. This year a new guideline for the management of non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) was presented. Substantial resources had been invested to sustain the research efforts in order to improve the diagnosis and therapeutic tools for this disease.

In this article we present the main differences between this guideline and the previous one, regarding the utility of the cardiac biomarkers, diagnosis and risk stratification algorithms, and last, but not least, medical and invasive treatment tools.