Guidelines Sessions

Learn how to implement, optimize, and translate guidelines into your clinical practice from key members of the guideline committees and experienced colleagues.

The Guidelines Sessions for ACC.23/WCC will focus on four current updates.

2022 ACC/AHA Guideline For the Diagnosis and Management of Aortic Disease

• Aortic Conditions: Diagnostics and Management (Session 672)

2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA Guideline For the Management of Heart Failure

• Heart Failure Management in 2023 and Beyond: Featuring the Kanu and Docey Chatterjee Keynote (Session 653)
• Tips and Tricks For Overcoming Barriers to the Implementation of Guideline-Directed Medical Therapies in Heart Failure (Session 637)
• Old School vs. Fresh Take: What is Actually Relevant in the Latest Heart Failure Guideline Updates? (Session 715)

2021 AHA/ACC/ASE/CHEST/SAEM/SCCT/SCMR Guideline For the Evaluation and Diagnosis of Chest Pain

• Acute Chest Pain: Implementing the Chest Pain Guidelines (Session 707)
• Debates in Stable Ischemic Heart Disease (SIHD): Translating New Guidelines, AUC, and Evidence Into Clinical Practice (Session 510)
• Top 10 Breakthroughs in the Cardiovascular Disease in Women From Pregnancy to Menopause (Session 693)

2021 ACC/AHA/SCAI Guideline For Coronary Artery Revascularization

• To PCI or Not to PCI: Challenges in Coronary Revascularization (Session 667)

2020 ACC/AHA Guideline For the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease

• Hemodynamic Controversies in Valvular Heart Disease Diagnosis and Management (Session 507)
• We Can, But Should We? Controversies in Treatment Options (Session 685)
• Management of Aortic Valve Disease in Non-Elderly Adults: Joint Symposium of the American Association For Thoracic Surgery and the American College of Cardiology (Session 634)

2019 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease

• Why Is No One Following the Guidelines?! The Need For Implementation Science (Session 618)