ACTION ICU Score (ICU Complications in NSTEMI)
ACTION ICU score: age, heart rate, systolic BP, creatinine, troponin, heart failure, ST depression, no prior revascularization, and chronic lung disease give a 0–20 score predicting complications needing critical care in NSTEMI.
Open the calculator → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.
Example
- Heart rate
- 105 bpm
- Systolic BP
- 120 mmHg
- Age ≥ 70 years
- No
- Creatinine ≥ 1.1 mg/dL
- No
- Initial troponin / ULN ≥ 12
- No
- Signs/symptoms of heart failure
- Yes
- ST-segment depression
- No
- No prior revascularization
- No
- Chronic lung disease
- No
Result: ACTION ICU 11 — intermediate complication risk.
The tool opens with these values already filled in. Replace them with your own.
What the result means
- < 5
- Lower risk of complications needing critical care in NSTEMI.
- 5-11
- Intermediate complication risk.
- >= 12
- High complication risk. Age, HR band, SBP band, creatinine, troponin, heart failure (+5), ST depression, no prior revascularization, chronic lung disease. Not a triage order.
What you enter
- Heart rate
- Systolic BP
- Age ≥ 70 years (+1)
- Creatinine ≥ 1.1 mg/dL (+1)
- Initial troponin / ULN ≥ 12 (+2)
- Signs/symptoms of heart failure (+5)
- ST-segment depression (+1)
- No prior revascularization (+1)
- Chronic lung disease (+2)
How this is calculated
Fanaroff AC, Chen AY, Thomas LE, et al. Risk score to predict need for intensive care in initially hemodynamically stable adults with non-ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction. J Am Heart Assoc. 2018;7(11):e008894. Read the source ↗
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