Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.
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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Coronary artery bypass graft surgery".)
International
●American Heart Association (AHA)/American College of Cardiology (ACC)/Heart Rhythm Society (HRS): Guideline for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation, focused update (2019)
●ACC/American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS)/AHA/American Society of Echocardiography (ASE)/American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC)/HRS/Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention (SCAI)/Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT)/Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR)/Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS): Appropriate use criteria for multimodality imaging in valvular heart disease (2017)
Canada
●Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS): Guidelines for the management of heart failure, comprehensive update (2017)
●CCS/Canadian Association of Interventional Cardiology (CAIC)/Canadian Society of Cardiac Surgery (CSCS): Position statement on revascularization – Multivessel coronary artery disease (2014)
United States
●American Heart Association (AHA)/American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP)/American Society for Preventive Cardiology (ASPC)/National Lipid Association (NLA)/Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association (PCNA): Guideline for the management of patients with chronic coronary disease (2023)
●AHA/ACC/Heart Rhythm Society (HRS): Guideline for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation, focused update (2019)
●AHA: Scientific statement on radial artery access and best practices for transradial coronary angiography and intervention in acute coronary syndrome, update (2018)
●ACC/American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS)/AHA/American Society of Echocardiography (ASE)/American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC)/HRS/Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention (SCAI)/Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT)/Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR)/Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS): Appropriate use criteria for multimodality imaging in valvular heart disease (2017)
●ACC/AHA: Guideline on duration of dual antiplatelet therapy in patients with coronary artery disease, focused update (2016)
●ACC/AHA/SCAI: Primary percutaneous coronary intervention for patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction, focused update (2015)
●ACC/AHA: Guideline for the management of patients with non–ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes (2014)
●SCAI/ACC/AHA: Expert consensus document on percutaneous coronary intervention without on-site surgical backup, update (2014)
●ACC/AHA/SCAI/American Medical Association (AMA)/National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA): Performance measures for adults undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (2013)
●American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF)/American College of Radiology (ACR)/ASE/ASNC/SCCT/SCMR: Appropriate utilization of cardiovascular imaging in heart failure (2013)
●ACCF/AHA: Guideline for the management of patients with unstable angina/non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction, focused update (2012)
Europe
●European Society of Cardiology (ESC): Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment elevation (2020)
●ESC: Clinical practice guidelines on chronic coronary syndromes (2019)
●ESC/European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS): Clinical practice guidelines on myocardial revascularization (2018)
●European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA), the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI), and the European Association of Acute Cardiac Care (ACCA): Joint European consensus document on the management of antithrombotic therapy in atrial fibrillation patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome and/or undergoing percutaneous cardiovascular interventions (2018)
●ESC: Clinical practice guidelines on dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT), focused update (2017)
●ESC: Clinical practice guidelines for the management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation (2017)
United Kingdom
●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on acute coronary syndromes (2020)
●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on intravascular lithotripsy for calcified coronary arteries during percutaneous coronary intervention (2020)
●NICE: Quality standard on acute coronary syndromes in adults (2014, updated 2020)
●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on percutaneous insertion of a temporary heart pump for left ventricular haemodynamic support in high-risk percutaneous coronary interventions (2018)
●Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN): A national clinical guideline for the management of stable angina (2018)
●NICE: Clinical guideline on stable angina – Management (2011, updated 2016)
●SIGN: A national clinical guideline on acute coronary syndrome (2016)
●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on optical coherence tomography to guide percutaneous coronary intervention (2014)
Japan
●[In Japanese] Japanese Circulation Society (JCS): Guidelines focused update on antithrombotic therapy in patients with coronary artery disease (2020)
●[In English] Japanese Association of Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics (CVIT): Expert consensus document on primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) (2018)
●[In Japanese] JCS: Guideline on revascularization of stable coronary artery disease (2018)
