2022 ESC Guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death

ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines

26 Aug 2022

This document presents an update of the 2015 ESC Guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias (VA) and the prevention of sudden cardiac death (SCD). New insights into the epidemiology of SCD, new evidence on genetics, imaging, and clinical findings for risk stratification for VA and SCD, and advances in diagnostic evaluation and therapeutic strategies made this revision necessary.

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Topic(s):

Ventricular Arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD)

Coronary Artery Disease, Acute Coronary Syndromes, Acute Cardiac Care

Endorsed by cardiac societies

Armenian Cardiologists Association , Austrian Society of Cardiology , Association of Cardiologists of Bosnia & Herzegovina , British Cardiovascular Society , Bulgarian Society of Cardiology , Croatian Cardiac Society , Czech Society of Cardiology , Danish Society of Cardiology , Egyptian Society of Cardiology , Estonian Society of Cardiology , Finnish Cardiac Society , French Society of Cardiology , German Cardiac Society , Hellenic Society of Cardiology , Hungarian Society of Cardiology , Italian Federation of Cardiology , Kyrgyz Society of Cardiology , Latvian Society of Cardiology , Lithuanian Society of Cardiology , Luxembourg Society of Cardiology , Maltese Cardiac Society , Norwegian Society of Cardiology , Polish Cardiac Society , Portuguese Society of Cardiology , Cardiology Society of Serbia , Slovak Society of Cardiology , Spanish Society of Cardiology , Swiss Society of Cardiology , Turkish Society of Cardiology , Ukrainian Association of Cardiology

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https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehac262

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