American College of Cardiology

GREGORATOS ET AL., ACC/AHA/NASPE 2002 Guideline Update for Implantation of Cardiac Pacemakers and Antiarrhythmia Devices
http://www.acc.org/clinical/guidelines/pacemaker/index.htm; 2002

ACC/AHA/NSAPE 2002 Guideline Update for Implantation of Cardiac Pacemakers and Antiarrythmia Devices—Full Text

A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (ACC/AHA/NASPE Committee on Implantation)

This is a Guideline Update of the 1997 Implantation of Cardiac Pacemakers and Antiarrythmia Devices Guidelines. To highlight the changes, deleted text is indicated by strikeout, and revised text is presented in brown. A clean version of the document, with changes fully incorporated, is available for download and print.

Tables and Figures

Table 1   Guidelines for Choice of Pacemaker Generator in Selected Indications for Pacing

Table 2    HCFA Guidelines for Transtelephonic Monitoring (1984)

Figure 1   Selection of Pacemaker Systems for Patients with Atrioventricular (AV) Block

Figure 2   Selection of Pacemaker Systems for Patients with Sinus Node Dysfunction. AV Indicates Atrioventricular

Appendix 1