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2025 ACC/AHA/ACEP/NAEMSP/SCAI guideline for the management of patients with acute coronary syndromes: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on clinical practice guidelines​​[5]

Published by:American Heart Association; American College of Cardiology

Last published:2025

Consensus recommendations of the Asia Pacific cardiometabolic consortium on secondary prevention strategies in myocardial infarction: recommendations on pharmacotherapy, lifestyle modification and cardiac rehabilitation[203]

Published by:Asia Pacific Cardiometabolic Consortium

Last published:2023

ESC Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes[3]

Published by:European Society of Cardiology

Last published:2023

CVIT expert consensus document on primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) update 2022[204]

Published by:Japanese Association of Cardiovascular Interventional and Therapeutics (CVIT)

Last published:2022

Experts’ consensus: pharmaco-invasive therapy for ST‐elevation myocardial infarction along with focus on secondary prevention and cardiac rehabilitation in India[206]

Published by:Indian Expert Consensus

Last published:2021

Guideline for the evaluation and diagnosis of chest pain[75]

Published by:American College of Cardiology; American Heart Association

Last published:2021

Pathway for acute coronary syndrome (PACSA)[208]

Published by:Emergency Care Institute, Agency for Clinical Innovation

Last published:2021

2021 ACC/AHA/SCAI guideline for coronary artery revascularization[113]

Published by:American College of Cardiology; American Heart Association; Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions

Last published:2021

2021 Korean Society of Myocardial Infarction expert consensus document on revascularization for acute myocardial infarction[205]

Published by:Korean Society of Myocardial Infarction

Last published:2021

Acute coronary syndromes[93]

Published by:National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (UK)

Last published:2020

Pre-hospital treatment of STEMI patients​​[155]

Published by:Working Group Acute Cardiac Care of the European Society of Cardiology

Last published:2020

ACC/AHA guideline on the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease[14]

Published by:American College of Cardiology; American Heart Association

Last published:2019

ACR appropriateness criteria: chest pain - possible acute coronary syndrome[111]

Published by:American College of Radiology

Last published:2019

2019 Canadian Cardiovascular Society/Canadian Association of Interventional Cardiology guidelines on the acute management of ST-elevation myocardial infarction: focused update on regionalization and reperfusion​​​​​[201]

Published by:Canadian Cardiovascular Society/Canadian Association of Interventional Cardiology

Last published:2019

Clinical practice guideline: management of acute ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)[207]

Published by:Academy of Medicine Malaysia/Ministry of Health Malaysia/International Heart Association of Malaysia

Last published:2019

ESC/EACTS guidelines on myocardial revascularization[94]

Published by:European Society of Cardiology; European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery

Last published:2018

AHA/ACC/AACVPR/AAPA/ABC/ACPM/ADA/AGS/APhA/ASPC/NLA/PCNA guideline on the management of blood cholesterol[173]

Published by:American College of Cardiology; American Heart Association

Last published:2018

Clinical policy: emergency department management of patients needing reperfusion therapy for acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction[202]

Published by:American College of Emergency Physicians

Last published:2017

Recent-onset chest pain of suspected cardiac origin: assessment and diagnosis[81]

Published by:National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (UK)

Last published:2016

AHA/ACC guideline on lifestyle management to reduce cardiovascular risk[69]

Published by:American College of Cardiology; American Heart Association

Last published:2013

Appropriate use criteria for echocardiography[112]

Published by:American College of Cardiology Foundation; American Society of Echocardiography; American College of Emergency Physicians; American Heart Association; American Society of Nuclear Cardiology; Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions; Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography; Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Last published:2011

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