Abstract
Objective: To establish a national registration of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) registry in Thailand in order to study clinical epidemiology, determine the demographic, management practices and in-hospital outcomes of patients with ACS.Methods and results: Thai ACS registry is a multi-center prospective project of nationwide registration in Thailand. The enrollment of the patients started in August 2002. After one year, records of 3025 patients were collected from 16 hospitals. The patients were classified as ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) (38.9%), non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) (35.6%) and unstable angina (UA) (25.5%). The mean age was 64.5 years old with 59.8% of male and 40.2% of female. The cardiovascular risk factors were 44.8% of diabetes mellitus, 62.1% of hypertension, 68.9% of dyslipidemia, and 31.9% of smoking. About 52% of the STEMI patients received reperfusion/revascularization therapy. The median time of door to needle was 100 minutes in patients received thrombolytic treatment and only 11% of them were received within 30 minutes after admission. The most complication of congestive heart failure was found 42.1% in ACS group. The total mortality rate was high in STEMI (16.2%) followed by NSTEMI (11.7%) and UA (3.1%) respectively. The mean length of hospital stay was 10 days.Conclusion: Thai ACS registry provides a detail of demographic, management practices and in-hospital outcomes of the patients with ACS. These data may have an impact on our health care system and alert the government to make a policy for these problems
