ACC/AHA Clinical Practice Guideline

Circulation is available at http://circ.ahajournals. org DOI: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000106 *Writing committee members are required to recuse themselves from voting on sections to which their specific relationships with industry and other entities may apply; see Appendix 1 for recusal information. †ACC/AHA Representative. ‡Society for Vascular Medicine Representative. §ACC/ AHA Task Force on Practice Guidelines Liaison. ║American Society of Nuclear Cardiology Representative. ¶American Society of Echocardiography Representative. #Heart Rhythm Society Representative. **American College of Surgeons Representative. ††Patient Representative/Lay Volunteer. ‡‡American Society of Anesthesiologists/Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Representative. §§ACC/AHA Task Force on Performance Measures Liasion. ║║Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions Representative. ¶¶ Former Task Force member; current member during the writing effort. This document was approved by the American College of Cardiology Board of Trustees and the American Heart Association Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee in July 2014. The online-only Comprehensive Relationships Data Supplement is available with this article at http://circ.ahajournals. org/lookup/suppl/ doi:10.1161/CIR.0000000000000106/-/DC1. The online-only Data Supplement files are available with this article at http://circ.ahajournals. org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1161/CIR. 0000000000000106/-/DC2. The American Heart Association requests that this document be cited as follows: Fleisher LA, Fleischmann KE, Auerbach AD, Barnason SA, Beckman JA, Bozkurt B, Davila-Roman VG, Gerhard-Herman MD, Holly TA, Kane GC, Marine JE, Nelson MT, Spencer CC, Thompson A, Ting HH, Uretsky BF, Wijeysundera DN. 2014 ACC/AHA guideline on perioperative cardiovascular evaluation and management of patients undergoing noncardiac surgery: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. Circulation. 2014;130:e278–e333. This article has been copublished in Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Copies: This document is available on the World Wide Web sites of the American College of Cardiology (www.cardiosource.org) and the American Heart Association (my.americanheart.org). A copy of the document is available at http://my.americanheart. org/statements by selecting either the “By Topic” link or the “By Publication Date” link. To purchase additional reprints, call 843-216-2533 or e-mail kelle.ramsay@wolterskluwer.com. Expert peer review of AHA Scientific Statements is conducted by the AHA Office of Science Operations. For more on AHA statements and guidelines development, visit http://my.americanheart. org/statements and select the “Policies and Development” link. Permissions: Multiple copies, modification, alteration, enhancement, and/or distribution of this document are not permitted without the express permission of the American Heart Association. Instructions for obtaining permission are located at http://www.heart. org/HEARTORG/General/CopyrightPermission-Guidelines_UCM_300404_Article. jsp. A link to the “Copyright Permissions Request Form” appears on the right side of the page. 2014 ACC/AHA Guideline on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation and Management of Patients Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines