ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 guidelines for management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force and the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Develop Guidelines for Management of Patients With Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death)

• Published in: Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2006-09, Vol.48 (5), p.e247-e346
• Main Authors: Zipes, Douglas P, Camm, A John, Borggrefe, Martin, Buxton, Alfred E, Chaitman, Bernard, Fromer, Martin, Gregoratos, Gabriel, Klein, George, Moss, Arthur J, Myerburg, Robert J, Priori, Silvia G, Quinones, Miguel A, Roden, Dan M, Silka, Michael J, Tracy, Cynthia, Smith, Jr, Sidney C, Jacobs, Alice K, Adams, Cynthia D, Antman, Elliott M, Anderson, Jeffrey L, Hunt, Sharon A, Halperin, Jonathan L, Nishimura, Rick, Ornato, Joseph P, Page, Richard L, Riegel, Barbara, Blanc, Jean-Jacques, Budaj, Andrzej, Dean, Veronica, Deckers, Jaap W, Despres, Catherine, Dickstein, Kenneth, Lekakis, John, McGregor, Keith, Metra, Marco, Morais, Joao, Osterspey, Ady, Tamargo, Juan Luis, Zamorano, José Luis
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Anti-Arrhythmia Agents - therapeutic use; Cardiac Output, Low; Cardiology; Cardiomyopathies - complications; Catheter Ablation; Death, Sudden, Cardiac - etiology; Death, Sudden, Cardiac - prevention & control; Defibrillators; Defibrillators, Implantable; Electrocardiography; Heart Arrest - etiology; Heart Arrest - therapy; Heart Function Tests; Hospitals; Humans; Tachycardia, Ventricular - complications; Tachycardia, Ventricular - drug therapy; Tachycardia, Ventricular - physiopathology; Task forces; Ventricular Fibrillation - complications; Ventricular Fibrillation - drug therapy; Ventricular Fibrillation - physiopathology; World Wide Web; Writing
• ISSN: 0735-1097; 1558-3597
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2006.07.010

[...]sections on epidemiology, mechanisms and substrates, and clinical presentations are brief, because there are no recommendations for those sections. Guidant Medtronic Abbott Johnson & Johnson Dr. Mark Carlson *Content Reviewer--ACCF Clinical EP Committee None None *Atricure None Atricure Cameron Health St. Jude Medical St. Jude Medical Dr. Paolo Della Bella *Content Reviewer--ESC None None None None None Dr. Andrew Epstein *Content Reviewer--ACC/AHA/HRS Pacemaker Guidelines Guidant Medtronic St. Jude Medical Guidant Medtronic St. Jude Medical None None None Dr. Sharon Hunt *Content Reviewer--ACC/AHA HF Guidelines, ACC/AHA Task Force on Practice Guidelines None None None None None Dr. Guillaume Jondeau *Content Reviewer--ESC None None None None None Dr. Alan Kadish *Content Reviewer--Individual Reviewer St. Jude Medical St. Jude Medical Medtronic St. Jude Medical None None Dr. Cecilia Linde *Content Reviewer--ESC *Medtronic None None None *St. Jude Medical Dr. Jonathan Linder *Content Reviewer--ACCF Task Force on Clinical Expert Consensus Documents None None *Targeson None None Dr. Christine Albert *Content Reviewer--AHA, ECG & Arrhythmias Committee None None None None None Dr. Carina Blomstrom-Lundquist *Content Reviewer--ESC, ACC/AHA/ESC Supraventricular Arrhythmias Guidelines None None None None None Dr. Ali Oto *Content Reviewer--ESC None None None None None Dr. Alexander Parkomenko *Content Reviewer--ESC None None None None None Dr. Richard Sutton *Content Reviewer--ESC None None None None None Dr. Josep Brugada Terradellas *Content Reviewer--ESC None None None None None Dr. Panos Vardas *Content Reviewer--ESC None None None None None Dr. Sami Viskin *Content Reviewer--ESC None None None None None Dr. David Wilber *Content Reviewer--Individual Reviewer Biosense/Webster BAND Guidant Medtronic St. Jude Medical *Medtronic None None Biosense/Webster Guidant Dr. Antonio ZaZa *Content Reviewer--ESC None None None None None Dr. L. Brent Mitchell *Organizational Reviewer--HRS None None None None None Dr. Thomas Munger *Organizational Reviewer--HRS None None None None None APPENDIX 2 External Peer Review Relationships With Industry for the ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 Guidelines for Management of Patients With Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death This table represents the relevant relationships of peer reviewers with industry to this topic that were disclosed at the time of peer review of this guideline.