Guidelines Pocket Guides

This practical quick-reference tool contains evidence-graded recommendations for early ischemic stroke including pre- and in-hospital care; administrative quality improvement; the NIHSS scale; and treatment, alteplase, lipid management and risk status tables.

This practical quick-reference tool contains detailed indications and recommendations for both temporary and permanent treatment of abnormal cardiac rhythms of every type; management algorithms; tables of available devices and monitoring frequency for each indication; and discussions of cardiac resynchronization therapy and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators.

This practical quick-reference tool contains detailed guideline recommendations for treatment at every stage, from out-of-hospital first contact through posttreatment follow-up, with indications for angiography, PCI, reperfusion, stents, CABG, fibrinolysis, aspiration thrombectomy, and adjunctive antithrombotic therapy; a list of fibrinolytic agents with doses and comments; medical therapies with doses and comments; and risk assessment, follow-up, and CHADS2 scoring information.

This practical quick-reference tool contains risk assessment and diagnostic recommendations, multiple diagnostic and treatment tables and algorithms, drug and interventional therapy guidelines, and patient follow-up recommendations.

This practical quick-reference tool contains detailed information including indications and contraindications for the use of mechanical circulatory support, preoperative risk evaluation information, mortality data, a device selection algorithm with lists of currently approved devices for both short- and long-term use, and device illustrations.

This practical quick-reference tool contains risk assessment guidelines by CHADS2 score, detailed recommendations for treatment by drug and dose, and a treatment algorithm.

This practical quick-reference tool contains screening, risk assessment, and diagnostic recommendations with multiple diagnostic and treatment tables and algorithms, and drug and interventional therapy, patient education, and follow-up recommendations.

This practical quick-reference tool contains comprehensive evidence-graded guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of atrial rhythm disorders including evaluation, risk stratification, pharmacologic rate and rhythm control, antithrombotic therapy, cardioversion, ablation techniques and coincident conditions.

This practical quick-reference tool contains detailed, graded diagnostic and therapeutic recommendations for valvular heart disease in easy-to-use tabular and algorithmic layouts.

 

This practical quick-reference tool contains screening, primary and secondary prevention, diagnosis, drug therapy, and dosing information and recommendations for the hyperlipidemias; treatment algorithms; patient monitoring; racial, ethnic and age differences; comorbidities and statin side effects.

This practical quick-reference tool contains graded recommendations for evaluation and risk scoring, use of biomarkers, medical therapy, selection for and timing of invasive and ischemia-guided strategies, discharge evaluation and planning, and management of special patient groups.

The following GUIDELINES Pocket Guides are included in the AHA/ASA print and digital bundles and are developed in collaboration with and approved by the AHA/ASA:

• Acute Ischemic Stroke
• Ambulatory and Mechanical Circulatory Support
• Atrial Fibrillation
• Cholesterol
• CPR for Mechanical Circulatory Support
• Device-Based Therapy
• Heart Failure High Blood Pressure
• Lower Extremity Peripheral Artery Disease
• Management of Patients With Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death
• Mechanical Circulatory Support
• Non–ST-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes
• Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation and Management
• Prevention of Stroke in Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation
• Prevention of Stroke in Women
• Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
• Primary Stroke Prevention
• Stable Ischemic Heart Disease
• ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI)
• Supraventricular Tachycardia
• Valvular Heart Disease