ACS Critical Pathways Implementation Tools

New STRIVE ACS Apps for Your iPhone

STRIVE®ACS Apps for Your iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad

  • Latest additions to the STRIVE Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS) Critical Pathways Toolkit
  • Applications (Apps) include a GRACE Risk Calculator and CRUSADE Bleeding Risk Calculator
  • Enter values from various predictors (eg, heart rate, systolic blood pressure, and creatinine clearance) to estimate all-cause mortality, recurrence of MI, and risk of in-hospital major bleeding
  • Convenient point-of-care tools complement your ACC/AHA guideline implementation for ACS patients

About the Apps

GRACE Risk Calculator

Predicts mortality or MI from admission through discharge and out to 6 months

CRUSADE Bleeding Risk Calculator

Estimates likelihood of in-hospital major bleeding

Point-of-care iPhone Apps are practical tools to assist clinicians in implementing ACC/AHA guidelines in practice. Both calculators are free.

Both calculators are FREE. Download your Apps today!

These STRIVEĀ® ACS Mobile Apps are made possible through support from the Bristol-Myers Squibb/Sanofi Pharmaceuticals Partnership.

The Strategies and Therapies for Reducing Ischemic and Vascular Events (STRIVEĀ®) education initiative is a program of the Network for Continuing Medical Education (NCME).

Download the ACS Apps for Your iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad


Customizable ACS Critical Pathways Implementation Tools

The complete set of 29 tools (.zip format)

ACS Critical Pathways Tools - Complete

ACS TOOLKIT DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS: Each toolkit item is available as a PDF (Adobe Acrobat) downloadable file. Click on a thumbnail to see a larger view. To download the item, click the "save" button (floppy disc icon) near the upper left-hand corner of the window, and save to a location on your computer or server. If you would like to download the entire set of tools on one PDF file, click the montage thumbnail at the end of the list, and then the "save" icon.
Individual tools

  1. ACS Pathways Overview
  2. Rule Out MI Pathway
  3. UA/NSTEMI Invasive Pathway
  4. UA/NSTEMI Conservative Pathway
  5. UA/NSTEMI Postangiography Pathway
  6. UA/NSTEMI Long-term Antithrombotic Therapy Pathway
  7. UA/NSTEMI Standing Orders
  8. UA/NSTEMI Pathways Grid
  9. UA/NSTEMI Risk Assessment Pocket Card
  10. UA/NSTEMI Cardiac Admission Checklist
  11. UA/NSTEMI ED Wall Chart
  12. UA/NSTEMI ED Pocket Card
  13. UA/NSTEMI CCU Wall Chart
  14. UA/NSTEMI CCU Pocket Card
  15. UA/NSTEMI Cardiac Discharge Checklist
  16. UA/NSTEMI Patient Discharge Letter
  17. UA/NSTEMI Patient Discharge Declaration
  18. STEMI Pathway Chart
  19. STEMI Reperfusion Checklist
  20. STEMI ED Standing Orders
  21. STEMI Contraindications to Fibrinolysis Pocket Card
  22. STEMI Antithrombotic Post-Stent Therapy Chart
  23. Project UPSTART STEMI Alert Data Sheet A
  24. Project UPSTART STEMI Alert Data Sheet B
  25. STEMI Reduce Door-to-Balloon Time Tracker
  26. STEMI D2B Time Reduction Poster
  27. STEMI Secondary Prevention and LTM
  28. Triage and Transfer for PCI in STEMI
  29. Stepped Care Approach Poster
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