Criteria for the diagnosis of cardiogenic shock—European perspective: A Clinical Consensus Statement of the Association for Acute CardioVascular Care, the Heart Failure Association, and the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions of the ESC
European Heart Journal - Acute CardioVascular Care
Abstract
Cardiogenic shock is a complex clinical syndrome with a high mortality risk. As heterogeneity of patient presentation is high and diagnosis not standardized, a timely diagnosis and thus initiation of treatment are oftentimes not achieved, further worsening the prognosis of affected patients. We therefore propose standardized criteria for the diagnosis of cardiogenic shock, based on three essential pillars: (i) an evidence of end-organ hypoperfusion at rest, (ii) which is primarily caused by haemodynamic abnormalities and a direct consequence of (iii) an underlying cardiac dysfunction commensurate with the state of shock.
Contributors
Hoong Sern Lim
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Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Birmingham , United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland
Agnieszka Tycinska
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Clement Delmas
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Jacob Eifer Moller
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Janine Pöss
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Christian Stoppe
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Christophe Vandenbriele
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Holger Thiele
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Kurt Huber
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Ingo Ahrens
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Marco Metra
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Wiktor Kuliczkowski
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Linda W van Laake
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Stephane Manzo-Silberman
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Federico Pappalardo
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Susanna Price
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Thomas F Lüscher
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