Typical treatment strategies of events included in the CM
| Cardiovascular events | |
| Cerebrovascular accident | Conservative management (antiplatelets and/or anticoagulants and watchful waiting) |
| Thrombolysis (in-hospital) | |
| Mechanical thrombectomy | |
| Myocardial infarction | Conservative management |
| Percutaneous coronary intervention | |
| Coronary artery bypass grafting | |
| Vascular complication | Conservative management (in-hospital monitoring with duplex sonography) |
| Endovascular stent or balloon therapy | |
| Surgical repair | |
| Bleeding | Optimization of anticoagulation control |
| Blood transfusion | |
| Surgical repair of bleeding location | |
| Re-intervention* | |
| Atrial fibrillation (without PI) | Medication (anticoagulants) |
| Electric cardioversion | |
| Conduction disturbances and arrhythmias | Pacemaker implantation (PI)† |
| Non-cardiovascular events | |
| Acute kidney injury | Conservative management (diuretics to correct volume overload) |
| Continuous veno-venous hemofiltration | |
| Chronic dialysis | |
| Kidney transplant | |
| Prosthetic valve-related events | |
| Prosthetic valve dysfunction | Conservative management (heart failure medication and watchful waiting) |
| Re-intervention* | |
| Prosthetic valve thrombosis | Thrombolysis (in-hospital) |
| Re-intervention: valve replacement | |
| Prosthetic valve endocarditis | Antibiotic treatment (in-hospital) |
| Re-intervention: valve replacement | |
*Re-intervention can be surgical repair or replacement/valve-in-valve implantation of another valve substitute.
†Patients with conduction disturbances and arrhythmias other than atrial fibrillation without the need for pacemaker implantation are excluded.
CM: conceptual model.