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

Heart Rhythm. 2018 Oct;15(10):e190-e252. doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2017.10.035. Epub 2017 Oct 30.
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Keywords: ACC/AHA Clinical Practice Guidelines; Acute coronary syndrome; Ambulatory ECG monitoring; Antiarrhythmic drug therapy; Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy; Athletes; CT imaging; Cardiac electrophysiology; Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Cardiomyopathy; Catheter ablation; Congenital heart disease; ECG; Echocardiography; Electrophysiological testing; Genetic arrhythmias; Guidelines; Heart failure; Imaging; Implantable and external cardioverter devices; Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator; MR imaging; Medication-induced arrhythmias; Myocardial infarction; Premature ventricular beats; Resuscitation; Sarcoidosis; Specific pathology (e.g., 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

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Advisory Committees
  • American Heart Association*
  • Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy / standards*
  • Cardiology / standards*
  • Death, Sudden, Cardiac / etiology
  • Death, Sudden, Cardiac / prevention & control*
  • Humans
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic*
  • Societies, Medical*
  • Tachycardia, Ventricular / complications
  • Tachycardia, Ventricular / therapy*
  • United States