2017 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for Management of Patients With Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death: Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society

Sana M Al-Khatib; William G Stevenson; Michael J Ackerman; William J Bryant; David J Callans; Anne B Curtis; Barbara J Deal; Timm Dickfeld; Michael E Field; Gregg C Fonarow; Anne M Gillis; Christopher B Granger; Stephen C Hammill; Mark A Hlatky; José A Joglar; G Neal Kay; Daniel D Matlock; Robert J Myerburg; Richard L Page

doi:10.1161/CIR.0000000000000548

2017 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for Management of Patients With Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death: Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society

Circulation. 2018 Sep 25;138(13):e210-e271. doi: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000548.

Authors

Sana M Al-Khatib, William G Stevenson¹, Michael J Ackerman¹, William J Bryant¹, David J Callans¹, Anne B Curtis¹, Barbara J Deal¹, Timm Dickfeld¹, Michael E Field¹, Gregg C Fonarow¹, Anne M Gillis¹, Christopher B Granger¹, Stephen C Hammill¹, Mark A Hlatky¹, José A Joglar¹, G Neal Kay¹, Daniel D Matlock¹, Robert J Myerburg¹, Richard L Page¹

Affiliation

¹ Writing committee members are required to recuse themselves from voting on sections to which their specific relationships with industry may apply; see Appendix 1 for detailed information. Section numbers pertain to those in the full-text guideline. †ACC/AHA Representative. ‡HRS Representative. §ACC/AHA Task Force on Performance Measures Liaison/HFSA Representative. ‖ACC/AHA Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines Liaison.

PMID: 29084733
DOI: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000548

No abstract available

Keywords: AHA Scientific Statements; CT imaging; ECG; MR imaging; acute coronary syndrome; ambulatory ECG monitoring; antiarrhythmic drug therapy; arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy; athletes; cardiac electrophysiology; cardiac resynchronization therapy; cardiomyopathy; catheter ablation; congenital heart disease; echocardiography; electrophysiological testing; genetic arrhythmias; guidelines; heart failure; imaging; implantable and external cardioverter devices; implantable cardioverter-defibrillator; medication-induced arrhythmias; myocardial infarction; premature ventricular beats; resuscitation; sarcoidosis; specific pathology (eg, congenital heart disease, myocarditis, renal failure); stable coronary artery disease; sudden cardiac arrest; sudden cardiac death; torsades de pointes; ventricular fibrillation; ventricular tachycardia.

Publication types

Practice Guideline

MeSH terms

American Heart Association
Cardiology / standards*
Consensus
Death, Sudden, Cardiac / prevention & control*
Evidence-Based Medicine / standards
Humans
Risk Factors
Tachycardia, Ventricular / complications
Tachycardia, Ventricular / diagnosis
Tachycardia, Ventricular / mortality
Tachycardia, Ventricular / therapy*
Treatment Outcome
United States
Ventricular Fibrillation / complications
Ventricular Fibrillation / diagnosis
Ventricular Fibrillation / mortality
Ventricular Fibrillation / therapy*
Ventricular Premature Complexes / complications
Ventricular Premature Complexes / diagnosis
Ventricular Premature Complexes / mortality
Ventricular Premature Complexes / therapy*