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)

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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)

Lee A. Fleisher MD, FACC, FAHA, Chair, Joshua A. Beckman MD, FACC, Kenneth A. Brown MD, FACC, FAHA, Hugh Calkins MD, FACC, FAHA, Elliott Chaikof MD, Kirsten E. Fleischmann MD, MPH, FACC, William K. Freeman MD, FACC, James B. Froehlich MD, MPH, FACC, Edward K. Kasper MD, FACC, Judy R. Kersten MD, FACC, Barbara Riegel DNSc, RN, FAHA, and John F. Robb MD, FACC

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

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