Society guideline links: ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes (non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction)" and "Society guideline links: Adult with chest pain in the emergency department".)

International

●International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR): International consensus on cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular care science with treatment recommendations – Adult advanced life support (2022)

●European Society of Cardiology (ESC)/American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA)/World Heart Federation (WHF): Clinical practice guidelines on the fourth universal definition of myocardial infarction (2018)

Canada

●Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS)/Canadian Association of Interventional Cardiology (CAIC): Guidelines on the acute management of ST-elevation myocardial infarction – Focused update on regionalization and reperfusion (2019)

●Diabetes Canada: Clinical practice guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes (2018)

United States

●American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA): Key data elements and definitions for chest pain and acute myocardial infarction (2022)

●ACC/AHA/Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI): 2021 guideline for coronary artery revascularization (published 2022)

●Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT): Expert consensus document for the use of coronary computed tomographic angiography for patients presenting with acute chest pain to the emergency department (2022)

●AHA: Policy statement on systems of care for ST-segment–elevation myocardial infarction (2021)

●AHA/ACC/American Society of Echocardiography (ASE)/American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST)/Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM)/SCCT/Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR): Guideline for the evaluation and diagnosis of chest pain (2021)

●AHA: Guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular care – Part 3: Adult basic and advanced life support (2020)

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on chest pain – Possible acute coronary syndrome (2019)

●AHA: Scientific statement on the contemporary diagnosis and management of patients with myocardial infarction in the absence of obstructive coronary artery disease (2019)

●European Society of Cardiology (ESC)/ACC/AHA/World Heart Federation (WHF): Clinical practice guidelines on the fourth universal definition of myocardial infarction (2018)

●ACC/American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS)/AHA/ASE/American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC)/SCAI/SCCT/Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS): Appropriate use criteria for coronary revascularization in patients with acute coronary syndromes (2017)

●AHA/ACC: Clinical performance and quality measures for adults with ST-elevation and non–ST-elevation myocardial infarction (2017)

●ACC/AHA/SCAI: Primary percutaneous coronary intervention for patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction, 2015 focused update (published 2016)

•American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF)/AHA: Guideline for the management of ST-elevation myocardial infarction (2013)

•ACCF/AHA/SCAI: Guideline for percutaneous coronary intervention (2011)

●AHA: Scientific statement on acute myocardial infarction in women (2016)

●SCAI: An expert consensus document for consideration of a new definition of clinically relevant myocardial infarction after coronary revascularization (2014)

●ACCF/AHA: Key data elements and definitions for measuring the clinical management and outcomes of patients with acute coronary syndromes and coronary artery disease (2013)

Europe

●European Resuscitation Council (ERC) and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM): Guidelines on temperature control after cardiac arrest in adults (2022)

●ERC: Guidelines for cardiac arrest in special circumstances (2021)

●ESC, Acute Cardiovascular Care Association (ACCA), and European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI): Joint position paper on antithrombotic therapy in patients with acute coronary syndrome complicated by cardiogenic shock or out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (2020)

●European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA): Consensus document on cardiac arrhythmias in the emergency settings of acute coronary syndrome and revascularization (2019)

●EHRA, ESC, EAPCI, and European Association of Acute Cardiac Care (ACCA): Joint European consensus document on the management of antithrombotic therapy in atrial fibrillation patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome and/or undergoing percutaneous cardiovascular interventions (2018)

●ESC–Acute Cardiovascular Care Association (ACCA): A position paper on spontaneous coronary artery dissection (2018)

●ESC/American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA)/World Heart Federation (WHF): Clinical practice guidelines on the fourth universal definition of myocardial infarction (2018)

●ESC/European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS): Clinical practice guidelines on myocardial revascularization (2018)

●ESC: Clinical practice guidelines for the management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation (2017)

●ESC–Acute Cardiovascular Care Association (ACCA): Position paper on quality indicators for acute myocardial infarction, 2016 (published 2017)

●European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) and Acute Cardiovascular Care Association (ACCA): Recommendations for the use of echocardiography in acute cardiovascular care (2014)

●EAPCI/Stent for Life (SFL): Consensus statement on invasive coronary treatment strategies for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (2014)

●EACVI: Recommendations for emergency echocardiography (2013)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on acute coronary syndromes (2020)

●NICE: Quality standard on acute coronary syndromes in adults (2014, updated 2020)

●NICE: Clinical guideline on recent-onset chest pain of suspected cardiac origin – Assessment and diagnosis (2010, updated 2016)

●Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN): A national clinical guideline on acute coronary syndrome (2016)

●NICE: Quality standard for secondary prevention after a myocardial infarction (2015)

Australia–New Zealand

●Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC): ANZCOR guideline 9.2.1 – Recognition and first aid management of suspected heart attack (2021)

●ARC: ANZCOR guideline 14.1 – Acute coronary syndromes: Presentation (2016)

●ARC: ANZCOR guideline 14.2 – Acute coronary syndromes: Initial medical therapy (2016)

●ARC: ANZCOR guideline 14.3 – Acute coronary syndromes: Reperfusion strategy (2016)

●National Heart Foundation of Australia (NHFA) & Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ): Australian clinical guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes (2016)

●ARC: ANZCOR guideline 14.1.2 – Acute coronary syndromes: The use of a gastro intestinal cocktail for the diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome in adult emergency department patients presenting with chest pain (2014)