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(Circulation. 2006;113:2662-2674.)
© 2006 American Heart Association, Inc.

ACC/AHA Practice Guidelines

ACC/AHA 2006 Guideline Update on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation for Noncardiac Surgery: Focused Update on Perioperative Beta-Blocker Therapy

A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Update 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, and Society for Vascular Medicine and Biology

WRITING COMMITTEE: Lee A. Fleisher, MD, FACC, 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; John F. Robb, MD, FACC^#

TASK FORCE MEMBERS: Sidney C. Smith, Jr, MD, FACC, FAHA, Chair; Alice K. Jacobs, MD, FACC, FAHA, Vice-Chair; Cynthia D. Adams, MSN, APRN-BC, FAHA; Jeffrey L. Anderson, MD, FACC, FAHA; Elliott M. Antman, MD, FACC, FAHA^**; David P. Faxon, MD, FACC, FAHA; Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FESC; Jonathan L. Halperin, MD, FACC, FAHA; Loren F. Hiratzka, MD, FACC, FAHA; Sharon A. Hunt, MD, FACC, FAHA; Bruce W. Lytle, MD, FACC, FAHA; Rick Nishimura, MD, FACC, FAHA; Richard L. Page, MD, FACC, FAHA; Barbara Riegel, DNSC, RN, FAHA

*Society for Vascular Medicine and Biology Official Representative.
American Society of Nuclear Cardiology Official Representative.
Heart Rhythm Society Official Representative.
Society for Vascular Surgery Official Representative.
||American Society of Echocardiography Official Representative.
¶Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Official Representative.
#Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions Official Representative.
**Immediate Past Chair.
Former Task Force member during this writing effort.

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	Footnotes

 
This document was approved by the American College of Cardiology Foundation Board of Trustees in March 2006 and by the American Heart Association Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee in February 2006.

The ACC/AHA Task Force on Practice Guidelines makes every effort to avoid any actual or potential conflicts of interest that might arise as a result of an outside relationship or personal interest of a member of the writing panel. Specifically, all members of the writing panel are asked to provide disclosure statements of all such relationships that might be perceived as real or potential conflicts of interest. These statements are reviewed by the parent task force, reported orally to all members of the writing panel at the first meeting, and updated as changes occur.

When this document is cited, the American Heart Association requests 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 2006 Guideline update on perioperative cardiovascular evaluation for noncardiac surgery: focused update on perioperative beta-blocker therapy: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Update the 2002 Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation for Noncardiac Surgery). Circulation. 2006;113:2662–2674. DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.176009.

This article has been copublished in the June 6, 2006, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (J Am Coll Cardiol. 2006;47:2343–2355).

Copies: This document is available on the World Wide Web sites of the American College of Cardiology (www.acc.org) and the American Heart Association (www.my.americanheart.org). Single copies of this document are available by calling 1-800-253-4636 or writing the American College of Cardiology Foundation, Resource Center, at 9111 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, MD 20814-1699. Ask for reprint number 71-0362. To purchase bulk reprints specify version and reprint number: Up to 999 copies, call 1-800-611-6083 (U.S. only) or fax 413-665-2671; 1,000 or more copies, call 214-706-1789, fax 214-691-6342, or e-mail pubauth@heart.org.

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