Explaining post-ACS depression and the care plan to a family — CASC communication station

Station brief

Format. Communication station, approximately 7–10 minutes after reading time. You are the psychiatry registrar on the cardiology step-down unit. The patient is not in the room for this conversation.^[1]

Candidate instructions. Explain post-ACS depression in plain language, outline why sertraline and rehab psychology are used, address reinfarction-prevention expectations honestly, correct the beta-blocker myth gently, manage house-transfer capacity timing, and address heart-failure concerns without false hopelessness.^[1][3][4]