The Living Guidelines: UA/NSTEMI Antiplatelet Therapy Polling Results for CLASS IIb Guidelines

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Class IIb Guidelines
For UA/NSTEMI patients in whom an initial conservative (i.e., noninvasive) strategy is selected, it may be reasonable to add eptifibatide or tirofiban to anticoagulant and oral antiplatelet therapy. (Level of Evidence: B)

 Antiplatelet Therapy CLASS IIb Recommendation 1 should be: CLASS I CLASS IIa CLASS IIb CLASS III