Focused Update
2009 Focused Updates: ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Management of Patients With ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (Updating the 2004 Guideline and 2007 Focused Update) and ACC/AHA/SCAI Guidelines on Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (Updating the 2005 Guideline and 2007 Focused Update): A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines

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ACCF/AHA practice guidelines
focused update
ST-elevation myocardial infarction
percutaneous coronary intervention
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This document was approved by the American College of Cardiology Foundation Board of Trustees in September 2009, by the American Heart Association Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee in September 2009, and by the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions Board of Trustees in October 2009.

The American College of Cardiology Foundation requests that this document be cited as follows: Kushner FG, Hand M, Smith SC Jr, King SB 3rd, Anderson JL, Antman EM, Bailey SR, Bates ER, Blankenship JC, Casey DE Jr, Green LA, Hochman JS, Jacobs AK, Krumholz HM, Morrison DA, Ornato JP, Pearle DL, Peterson ED, Sloan MA, Whitlow PL, Williams DO. 2009 focused updates: ACC/AHA guidelines for the management of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (updating the 2004 guideline and 2007 focused update) and ACC/AHA/SCAI guidelines on percutaneous coronary intervention (updating the 2005 guideline and 2007 focused update): a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2009;54:2205–41.

This article has been copublished in Circulationand Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions.

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