"Let's not hurry, but let's not waste time": The importance of appropriate management of non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction.

Under the umbrella diagnosis of non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes (NSTE-ACS), unstable angina and non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction are frequent clinical presentations of atherosclerotic coronary disease and cause significant cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. In recent years there has been an overall trend toward a reduction in fatal events in acute coronary syndromes (ACS), although mortality remains high. This is in large part due to significant advances in pharmacologic and invasive management, with the introduction of new antithrombotic and antiplatelet drugs and the wider adoption of an early invasive strategy, in which coronary angiography is followed