ACC/AHA
Guideline Update for Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation
for Noncardiac Surgery
A
Report of the American College of Cardiology/American
Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines
(Committee to Update the 1996 Guidelines on Perioperative
Cardiovascular Evaluation for Noncardiac Surgery)
Appendix
IIAbbreviations
ACC
= American College of Cardiology
ACE
= angiotensin converting enzyme
AHA
= American Heart Association
BARI
= Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation
CABG
= coronary artery bypass graft
CAD
= coronary artery disease
CASS
= Coronary Artery Surgery Study
CHD
= coronary heart disease
CI
= confidence interval
CK-MB
= creatine kinase-MB
DSE
= dobutamine stress echocardiogram
ECG
= electrocardiogram
HF
= heart failure
ICD
= implantable cardioverter defibrillator
LVEF
= left ventricular ejection fraction
MET
= metabolic equivalent
MI
= myocardial infarction
PCI
= percutaneous coronary intervention
PTCA
= percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty
TEE
= transesophageal echocardiography
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