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ACC/AHA GUIDELINE

ACC/AHA 2007 Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation and Care for Noncardiac Surgery: Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 2002 Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation for Noncardiac Surgery)

Developed in Collaboration With the American Society of Echocardiography, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Heart Rhythm Society, Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society for Vascular Medicine and Biology, and Society for Vascular Surgery

Lee A. Fleisher, MD, FACC, FAHA, Chair, WRITING COMMITTEE MEMBER, Joshua A. Beckman, MD, FACC, WRITING COMMITTEE MEMBER^¶, Kenneth A. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, WRITING COMMITTEE MEMBER, Hugh Calkins, MD, FACC, FAHA, WRITING COMMITTEE MEMBER, Elliott Chaikof, MD, WRITING COMMITTEE MEMBER^#, Kirsten E. Fleischmann, MD, MPH, FACC, WRITING COMMITTEE MEMBER, William K. Freeman, MD, FACC, WRITING COMMITTEE MEMBER_^*, James B. Froehlich, MD, MPH, FACC, WRITING COMMITTEE MEMBER, Edward K. Kasper, MD, FACC, WRITING COMMITTEE MEMBER, Judy R. Kersten, MD, FACC, WRITING COMMITTEE MEMBER, Barbara Riegel, DNSc, RN, FAHA, WRITING COMMITTEE MEMBER, John F. Robb, MD, FACC, WRITING COMMITTEE MEMBER^||, Sidney C. Smith, Jr, MD, FACC, FAHA, Chair, ACC/AHA TASK FORCE MEMBER, Alice K. Jacobs, MD, FACC, FAHA, Vice Chair, ACC/AHA TASK FORCE MEMBER, Cynthia D. Adams, MSN, PhD, FAHA, ACC/AHA TASK FORCE MEMBER, Jeffrey L. Anderson, MD, FACC, FAHA, ACC/AHA TASK FORCE MEMBER, Elliott M. Antman, MD, FACC, FAHA, ACC/AHA TASK FORCE MEMBER_^**, Christopher E. Buller, MD, FACC, ACC/AHA TASK FORCE MEMBER, Mark A. Creager, MD, FACC, FAHA, ACC/AHA TASK FORCE MEMBER, Steven M. Ettinger, MD, FACC, ACC/AHA TASK FORCE MEMBER, David P. Faxon, MD, FACC, FAHA, ACC/AHA TASK FORCE MEMBER, Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, ACC/AHA TASK FORCE MEMBER, Jonathan L. Halperin, MD, FACC, FAHA, ACC/AHA TASK FORCE MEMBER, Loren F. Hiratzka, MD, FACC, FAHA, ACC/AHA TASK FORCE MEMBER, Sharon A. Hunt, MD, FACC, FAHA, ACC/AHA TASK FORCE MEMBER, Bruce W. Lytle, MD, FACC, FAHA, ACC/AHA TASK FORCE MEMBER, Rick Nishimura, MD, FACC, FAHA, ACC/AHA TASK FORCE MEMBER, Joseph P. Ornato, MD, FACC, ACC/AHA TASK FORCE MEMBER, Richard L. Page, MD, FACC, FAHA, ACC/AHA TASK FORCE MEMBER, Barbara Riegel, DNSc, RN, FAHA, ACC/AHA TASK FORCE MEMBER, Lynn G. Tarkington, RN, ACC/AHA TASK FORCE MEMBER and Clyde W. Yancy, MD, FACC, ACC/AHA TASK FORCE MEMBER

	Footnotes

 
This document was approved by the American College of Cardiology Foundation Board of Trustees in June 2007 and by the American Heart Association Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee in June 2007.

When this document is cited, the American College of Cardiology Foundation and American Heart Association request that the following citation format be used: Fleisher LA, Beckman JA, Brown KA, Calkins H, Chaikof E, Fleischmann KE, Freeman WK, Froehlich JB, Kasper EK, Kersten JR, Riegel B, Robb JF. ACC/AHA 2007 guidelines on perioperative cardiovascular evaluation and care for noncardiac surgery: executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 2002 Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation for Noncardiac Surgery). J Am Coll Cardiol 2007;50:1707–32.

This article has been copublished in the October 23, 2007, issue of Circulation.

Copies: This document is available on the World Wide Web sites of the American College of Cardiology (www.acc.org) and the American Heart Association (my.americanheart.org). For copies of this document, please contact Elsevier Inc. Reprint. Department, fax (212) 633-3820, e-mail reprints{at}elsevier.com.

Permissions: Multiple copies, modification, alteration, enhancement, and/or distribution of this document are not permitted without the express permission of the American College of Cardiology Foundation or the American Heart Association. Instructions for obtaining permission are located at http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4431. A link to the "Permission Request Form" appears on the right side of the page.

^_* American Society of Echocardiography Official Representative.

American Society of Nuclear Cardiology Official Representative.

Heart Rhythm Society Official Representative.

Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Official Representative.

^|| Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions Official Representative.

^¶ Society for Vascular Medicine and Biology Official Representative.

^# Society for Vascular Surgery Official Representative.

^_** Immediate Past Chair.

Former Task Force member during this writing effort.

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