Practice Guideline 2013 Accf/Aha Guideline For The Management Of St-Elevation Myocardial Infarction A Report Of The American College Of Cardiology Foundation

Journal of the American College of Cardiology
© 2013 by the American College of Cardiology Foundation and the American Heart Association, Inc.
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Vol. 61, No. 4, 2013
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2012.11.019

PRACTICE GUIDELINE

2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of
ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction
A Report of theAmerican College of Cardiology Foundation/
American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines

Developed in Collaboration With the American College of Emergency Physicians and
Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions
WRITING COMMITTEE MEMBERS*
Patrick T. O’Gara, MD, FACC, FAHA, Chair†;
Frederick G. Kushner, MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI, Vice Chair*†; Deborah D. Ascheim, MD,FACC†;
Donald E. Casey, Jr, MD, MPH, MBA, FACP, FAHA‡; Mina K. Chung, MD, FACC, FAHA*†;
James A. de Lemos, MD, FACC*†; Steven M. Ettinger, MD, FACC*§;
James C. Fang, MD, FACC, FAHA*†; Francis M. Fesmire, MD, FACEP* ¶;
Barry A. Franklin, PHD, FAHA†; Christopher B. Granger, MD, FACC, FAHA*†;
Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM, FACC, FAHA†; Jane A. Linderbaum, MS, CNP-BC†;
David A. Morrow, MD, MPH,FACC, FAHA*†; L. Kristin Newby, MD, MHS, FACC, FAHA*†;
Joseph P. Ornato, MD, FACC, FAHA, FACP, FACEP†; Narith Ou, PharmD†;
Martha J. Radford, MD, FACC, FAHA†; Jacqueline E. Tamis-Holland, MD, FACC†;
Carl L. Tommaso, MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI#; Cynthia M. Tracy, MD, FACC, FAHA†;
Y. Joseph Woo, MD, FACC, FAHA†; David X. Zhao, MD, FACC*†
ACCF/AHA TASK FORCE MEMBERS
Jeffrey L. Anderson, MD, FACC,FAHA, Chair;
Alice K. Jacobs, MD, FACC, FAHA, Immediate Past Chair;
Jonathan L. Halperin, MD, FACC, FAHA, Chair-Elect;
Nancy M. Albert, PHD, CCNS, CCRN, FAHA; Ralph G. Brindis, MD, MPH, MACC;
Mark A. Creager, MD, FACC, FAHA; David DeMets, PHD;
Robert A. Guyton, MD, FACC, FAHA; Judith S. Hochman, MD, FACC, FAHA;
Richard J. Kovacs, MD, FACC; Frederick G. Kushner, MD, FACC, FAHA**;
E.Magnus Ohman, MD, FACC; William G. Stevenson, MD, FACC, FAHA;
Clyde W. Yancy, MD, FACC, FAHA**

*Writing committee members are required to recuse themselves from voting on sections to which their specific relationships with industry may apply;
see Appendix 1 for detailed information. †ACCF/AHA representative. ‡ACP representative. §ACCF/AHA Task Force on Practice Guidelines liaison.
ACCF/AHA TaskForce on Performance Measures liaison. ¶ACEP representative. #SCAI representative. **Former Task Force member during this
writing effort.
This document was approved by the American College of Cardiology Foundation Board of Trustees and the American Heart Association Science and
Advisory Coordinating Committee in June 2012.
The American College of Cardiology Foundation requests that thisdocument be cited as follows: O’Gara PT, Kushner FG, Ascheim DD, Casey DE
Jr, Chung MK, de Lemos JA, Ettinger SM, Fang JC, Fesmire FM, Franklin BA, Granger CB, Krumholz HM, Linderbaum JA, Morrow DA, Newby LK,
Ornato JP, Ou N, Radford MJ, Tamis-Holland JE, Tommaso CL, Tracy CM, Woo YJ, Zhao DX. 2013 ACCF/AHA guideline for the management of
ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a report of theAmerican College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice
Guidelines. J Am Coll Cardiol 2013;61:xxx–xxx, doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2012.11.019.
This article is copublished in Circulation.
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