Society guideline links: Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation

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International

●Heart Rhythm Society (HRS)/European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)/European Cardiac Arrhythmia Society (ECAS)/Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS)/Sociedad Latinoamericana de Estimulación Cardíaca y Electrofisiología (SOLAECE): Expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation (2017)

Canada

●Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS): Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation, focused update (2018)

●CCS: Management of atrial fibrillation – Complete guidelines listing (2016)

United States

●American Heart Association (AHA)/American College of Cardiology (ACC)/Heart Rhythm Society (HRS): Guideline for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation, focused update (2019)

●American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS): Expert consensus guidelines – Examining surgical ablation for atrial fibrillation (2017)

●HRS/European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)/European Cardiac Arrhythmia Society (ECAS)/Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS)/Sociedad Latinoamericana de Estimulación Cardíaca y Electrofisiología (SOLAECE): Expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation (2017)

Europe

●Heart Rhythm Society (HRS)/European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)/European Cardiac Arrhythmia Society (ECAS)/Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS)/Sociedad Latinoamericana de Estimulación Cardíaca y Electrofisiología (SOLAECE): Expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation (2017)

●European Society of Cardiology (ESC): Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation (2016)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on atrial fibrillation – Diagnosis and management (2021)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on percutaneous (non-thoracoscopic) epicardial catheter radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation (2009)

Australia-New Zealand

●National Heart Foundation of Australia and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ): Australian clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and management of atrial fibrillation (2018)

●CSANZ: Position statement on atrial fibrillation ablation (2013)

●National Heart Foundation of Australia: Consensus statement on catheter ablation as a therapy for atrial fibrillation (2013)

●CSANZ: Guidelines for paediatric cardiac catheterisation (2011)

Japan

●[In Japanese] Japanese Circulation Society (JCS)/Japanese Heart Rhythm Society (JHRS): Guideline on non-pharmacotherapy of cardiac arrhythmias, focused update (2021)

•[In Japanese] JCS: Guideline on non-pharmacotherapy of cardiac arrhythmias (2018)