[Cardio Delirium Day: national study on the prevalence of delirium in Italian cardiology wards].

Background: To date delirium prevalence in the adult acute Italian hospital cardiac population is unknown. In a multicenter study, we assessed the prevalence of delirium over a single day among a population of patients admitted to acute cardiac hospital wards in Italy.

Methods: This is a point prevalence study (called "Cardio Delirium Day") which involved 55 Italian cardiologic centers (23 North, 18 Central, 12 South, 2 Sardinia) that collected data on 152 patients older than 65 years hospitalized on March 15, 2023.

[Clinical risk management: a new frontier for Italian Cardiology].

Patient safety is the moral and ethical responsibility of healthcare professionals, representing a constantly evolving field in industrialized countries whose key factors are sustainability, training and prevention. Clinical risk management is primarily concerned with systems issues, but people are of paramount importance to effective teamwork and leadership. Hospitals have recently been urged to adopt the methods of high-fidelity organizations to identify and change ineffective practice patterns: recognizing that little things that go wrong are early warning signs of trouble, near miss and errors become information about the health of systems and learn from them.

[ANMCO Position paper: Care pathway for advanced heart failure patients candidate for heart transplantation/ventricular assist device].

Heart failure is a complex clinical syndrome with a severe prognosis, despite therapeutic progress. The management of the advanced stages of the syndrome is particularly complex in patients who are referred to palliative care as well as in those who are candidates for cardiac replacement therapy. For the latter group, a prompt recognition of the transition to the advanced stage as well as an early referral to the centers for cardiac replacement therapy are essential elements to ensure that patients follow the most appropriate diagnostic-therapeutic pathway.