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ACC/AHA GUIDELINE

ACC/AHA 2007 Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation and Care for Noncardiac Surgery: 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, FESC, 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, FAHA, 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

 
**Immediate Past Chair.

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: 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:e159–241.

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

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^_* 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.

Former Task Force member during this writing effort.

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