Erschienen in:
01.12.2017 | Editorial
European perspective: Comparing the AHA/ACC and ESC guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death
verfasst von:
Frank M. Bengel, MD
Erschienen in:
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
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Ausgabe 6/2017
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Excerpt
In this issue of the
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, the “Guidelines in Review” series provides a comparison of the AHA/ACC and ESC Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death.
1 Of note, the ESC guidelines committee specifically mentions in its introduction that their guidelines from 2015
2 should be seen as a European update of the 2006 AHA/ACC guidelines, which at that time were a joint effort together with ESC.
3 AHA/ACC have not come up with a specific update of those guidelines to date. For this reason, Velasco and colleagues included recommendations from other, more recent AHA/ACC guidelines on heart failure,
4 implantable electronic devices,
5 and congenital heart disease
6 in their comparison. …