Practice Guideline
2012 ACCF/AHA/HRS Focused Update Incorporated Into the ACCF/AHA/HRS 2008 Guidelines for Device-Based Therapy of Cardiac Rhythm Abnormalities: A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society

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ACCF/AHA Practice Guidelines
arrhythmia
cardiomyopathy
cardiac resynchronization
device-based therapy
focused update
heart failure
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Developed in Collaboration With the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Heart Failure Society of America, and Society of Thoracic Surgeons

This document was approved by the American College of Cardiology Foundation Board of Trustees, the American Heart Association Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee, and the Heart Rhythm Society Board of Trustees in May 2012.

The American College of Cardiology Foundation requests that this document be cited as follows: Epstein AE, DiMarco JP, Ellenbogen KA, Estes NAM III, Freedman RA, Gettes LS, Gillinov AM, Gregoratos G, Hammill SC, Hayes DL, Hlatky MA, Newby LK, Page RL, Schoenfeld MH, Silka MJ, Stevenson LW, Sweeney MO 2012 ACCF/AHA/HRS focused update incorporated into the ACCF/AHA/HRS 2008 guidelines for device-based therapy of cardiac rhythm abnormalities: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society. J Am Coll Cardiol 2013;61:e6–75.

This article is copublished in Circulation.

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The 2012 writing group members were required to recuse themselves from voting on sections to which their specific relationships with industry and other entities may apply; see Appendix 4 for recusal information.

ACCF/AHA Representative.

Heart Rhythm Society Representative.

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ACCF/AHA Task Force on Performance Measures Liaison.

American Association for Thoracic Surgery Representative.

Society of Thoracic Surgeons Representative.

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Heart Failure Society of America Representative.

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ACCF/AHA Task Force on Practice Guidelines Liaison.