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The primary goals of therapy for patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome include:
- Reducing the amount of myocardial necrosis that occurs in patients with acute myocardial infarction, thus preserving left ventricular function, preventing heart failure, and limiting other cardiovascular complications;
- Preventing major adverse cardiac events such as death, nonfatal myocardial infarction, and the need for urgent revascularization;
- Treating acute, life-threatening complications of ACS, such as ventricular fibrillation, pulseless ventricular tachycardia, unstable tachycardias, and symptomatic bradycardias. [29]
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