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ACC/AHA/SCAI Practice Guideline

ACC/AHA/SCAI 2005 Guideline Update for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention—Summary Article

A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (ACC/AHA/SCAI Writing Committee to Update the 2001 Guidelines for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention)

WRITING COMMITTEE: Sidney C. Smith, Jr, MD, FACC, FAHA, Chair; Ted E. Feldman, MD, FACC, FSCAI*; John W. Hirshfeld, Jr, MD, FACC, FSCAI*; Alice K. Jacobs, MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI; Morton J. Kern, MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI*; Spencer B. King, III, MD, MACC, FSCAI; Douglass A. Morrison, MD, PhD, FACC, FSCAI*; William W. O’Neill, MD, FACC, FSCAI; Hartzell V. Schaff, MD, FACC, FAHA; Patrick L. Whitlow, MD, FACC, FAHA; David O. Williams, MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI

TASK FORCE MEMBERS: Elliott M. Antman, MD, FACC, FAHA, Chair; Sidney C. Smith, Jr, MD, FACC, FAHA, Vice-Chair; Cynthia D. Adams, MSN, APRN-BC, FAHA; Jeffrey L. Anderson, MD, FACC, FAHA; David P. Faxon, MD, FACC, FAHA{dagger}; Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FESC{dagger}; Jonathan L. Halperin, MD, FACC, FAHA; Loren F. Hiratzka, MD, FACC, FAHA{dagger}; Sharon Ann Hunt, MD, FACC, FAHA; Alice K. Jacobs, MD, FACC, FAHA; Rick Nishimura, MD, FACC, FAHA; Joseph P. Ornato, MD, FACC, FAHA; Richard L. Page, MD, FACC, FAHA; Barbara Riegel, DNSc, RN, FAHA


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*    Introduction
 
The American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association/Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (ACC/AHA/SCAI) 2005 Guideline Update for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) contains changes in the recommendations, along with supporting text. For the purpose of comparison, this summary contains a list of the updated recommendations (middle column) alongside a list of the 2001 recommendations (left column), with each set accompanied by a comment (right column) that provides the rationale for the changes, additions, or deletions (see Table 1 DownDownDownDownDownDownDownDownDownDownDownDownDownDown). References that support either the 2001 recommendations that have changed or the new or revised recommendations are cited in parentheses at the end of each recommendation or comment. A list of abbreviations is included in the Appendix. The reader is referred to the full-text guideline posted on the World Wide Web sites of the ACC, the AHA, and the SCAI for a more detailed explanation of the changes discussed here. Please note that we have changed the table of contents headings in the 2001 ACC/AHA Guidelines for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention from roman numerals to unique identifying numbers.


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2001 Table. Recommendations for Pharmacological Management of Patients Undergoing PCI—For Comparison Purposes Only (Deleted From 2005 Guideline)

In preparing this update, the committee was guided by the following principles:

  1. Changes in recommendations and levels of evidence were made because of the availability of data from new randomized trials, the accumulation of new clinical evidence, and/or the development of clinical consensus.
  2. The committee is cognizant of the healthcare, logistic, and financial implications of recent trials and . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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