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Cardiac Pacing and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Guidelines

ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines

The guidelines have been redesigned to offer a more accessible format for users. Greater emphasis than ever before has been placed on a practical ‘how to’ approach targeted at generalists, including GPs and geriatricians, as well as expert cardiologists and electro physiologists. For more read the press release.

Treatment
Device Therapy
Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT)
Ventricular Arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD)
Antibradycardia Pacing
Chronic Heart Failure
Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD)
Device Complications and Lead Extraction
Treatment
Guidelines version available to download
Full text
Published in 2013
Reference Eur Heart J - 2013:34;2281–2329-doi:10.1093/eurheartj/eht150
Essential messages
Published in 2013
Reference CP
Summary card
Published in 2013
Reference CP
Pocket guidelines
Published in 2013
Reference CP
Slide-set
Published in 2013
Reference Cardiac Pacing Guidelines Presentation
CME questions
Published in 2013
Reference CP
Related materials
Published in 2013
Reference Addenda -Eur Heart J - doi:10.1093/eurheartj/eht180
Declarations of interest
Endorsed by cardiac societies
Albanian Society of Cardiology , Association of Cardiologists of Bosnia & Herzegovina , Association of Cardiologists of Kazakhstan , Austrian Society of Cardiology , Belgian Society of Cardiology , British Cardiovascular Society , Bulgarian Society of Cardiology , Croatian Cardiac Society , Czech Society of Cardiology , Danish Society of Cardiology , Estonian Society of Cardiology , Finnish Cardiac Society , German Cardiac Society , Hellenic Society of Cardiology , Hungarian Society of Cardiology , Israel Heart Society , Latvian Society of Cardiology , Lebanese Society of Cardiology , Lithuanian Society of Cardiology , Maltese Cardiac Society , Norwegian Society of Cardiology , Portuguese Society of Cardiology , Polish Cardiac Society , Russian Society of Cardiology , San Marino Society of Cardiology , Slovak Society of Cardiology , Slovenian Society of Cardiology , Tunisian Society of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery , Turkish Society of Cardiology
Table of contents: Full Text (ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines)
  • Preamble
  • Indications for pacing
    • Epidemiology, natural histroy, pathophysiology, classification & diagnosis of bradyarrhythmias suitabe for permanent cardiac pacing therapy
    • Persitent bradycardia
    • Intermittent (documented) bradycardia
    • Suspected (undocumented) bradycardia
  • Indications for cardiac resynchronization
    • Epidemiology, prognosis & pathophysiology of heart failure suitable for cardiac resynchronization therapy
    • Patients in sinus rhythm
    • Patients in atrial fibrillation
    • Patients with heart failure & conventional pacemaker indications
    • Back-up ICD in patients indicated for CRT
  • Indications for pacing in specific conditions
    • Pacing in acute myocardial infarction
    • Pacing after cardiac surgery, TAVI & heart transplantation
    • Pacing & CRT in children & in congenital heart disease
    • Pacing in hydrotrophic cardiomyopathy
    • Pacing in rare diseases
    • Pacing in pregnancy
    • Pacing for first-degree atrioventricular block (haemodynamic)
    • Algorithms for prevention & termination of atrial arrhythmias by pacing
  • Complication of pacing & CRT implantation
  • Management considerations
    • Pacing for alternative right ventricular sites
    • Reimplantation of pacemaker/CRT after device explanation for infection
    • Magnetic resonance imaging in patients with implanted cardiac devices
    • Emergency (transvenous) temporary pacing
    • Remote management of arrhytmias & device

 

 

 
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