ESC Guidelines Publication Schedule

List of new and on-going Guidelines and Task Forces.

Clinical Practice Guidelines and Scientific Statements of the ESC are prepared by Task Forces. Task Forces are groups of cardiologists who meet upon request to deal with a particular problem in cardiology and form an ad hoc committee commissioned by the Committee for Practice Guidelines after approval by the ESC Board. The Clinical Practice Guidelines produced are published in the European Heart Journal on a regular basis.

ESC Guidelines Titles

Chairs

Publication in 2009

Publication in 2010/
2011

Guidelines on Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (New Version)

N. Galié

x

Guidelines on the Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Infective Endocarditis

G. Habib

x

Guidelines for Preoperative Cardiac Risk Assessment and Perioperative Cardiac Management in Non-cardiac Surgery

D.Poldermans 

x

Management of Syncope

A Moya & Richard Sutton

x

   

Management of Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

J. Camm

x

Management of Grown-up Congenital Heart  Disease

H. Baumgartner

x

Myocardial Revascularization

W Wijns &
P Kolh

x

Peripheral Arterial Diseases

M Tendera

x

Management of Dyslipidemias

Z Reiner & A Catapano

x


Find out more about ESC Task Forces

Proposals for Task Forces and Study Groups can be made by the Chairmen of Working Groups, and by the Presidents of the National Societies.

Read the recommendations for ESC Task Force Creation and Report Production .