Practice Guideline

2011 ACCF/AHA/HRS Focused Updates Incorporated Into the ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines Developed in partnership with the European Society of Cardiology and in collaboration with the European Heart Rhythm Association and the Heart Rhythm Society

The 2011 focused updates to this document were approved by the leadership of the American College of Cardiology Foundation, American Heart Association, and the Heart Rhythm Society, and the sections that have been updated are indicated with hyperlinks to the focused updates where applicable.

The American College of Cardiology Foundation requests that this document be cited as follows: Fuster V, Rydén LE, Cannom DS, Crijns HJ, Curtis AB, Ellenbogen KA, Halperin JL, Kay GN, Le Heuzey J-Y, Lowe JE, Olsson SB, Prystowsky EN, Tamargo JL, Wann LS. 2011 ACCF/AHA/HRS focused updates incorporated into the ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 guidelines for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. J Am Coll Cardiol 2011;57:e101–98.

This article has been copublished in Circulation.

Copies: This document is available on the World Wide Web sites of the American College of Cardiology (www.cardiosource.org), the American Heart Association (www.my.americanheart.org). For copies of this document, please contact the Elsevier Inc. Reprint Department, fax (212) 633-3820, e-mail [email protected].

Permissions: Modification, alteration, enhancement, and/or distribution of this document are not permitted without the express permission of the American College of Cardiology Foundation. Please contact Elsevier's permission department at [email protected].

This guideline contains hyperlinks to recommendations and supporting text that have been updated by the “2011 ACCF/AHA/HRS Focused Update on the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation (Updating the 2006 Guideline)” (J Am Coll Cardiol 2011;57:223–42; doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2010.10.001) and the “2011 ACCF/AHA/HRS Focused Update on the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation (Update on Dabigatran)” (J Am Coll Cardiol 2011;57:1330–7; doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2011.01.010). Updated sections are indicated in the Table of Contents and text.

European Heart Rhythm Association Representative;

Heart Rhythm Society Representative;

ACCF/AHA Representative;

Recused from 2011 Update Section 8.1.8.3, Recommendations for Dronedarone;

ACCF/AHA Task Force on Performance Measures Representative;

ACCF/AHA Task Force on Practice Guidelines Liaison;

Former Task Force member during this writing effort.