Society guideline links: Heart failure in children

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: Heart failure in adults".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Congenital heart disease in infants and children".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Myocarditis".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Cardiomyopathy".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Arrhythmias in children".)

International

●International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT): Guidelines for mechanical circulatory support – A 10-year update (2023)

●ISHLT: Consensus statement for perioperative management of patients with pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure undergoing surgery (2022)

●Pediatric and Congenital Electrophysiology Society (PACES): Expert consensus statement on the indications and management of cardiovascular implantable electronic devices in pediatric patients (2021)

●ISHLT: Guidelines for the management of pediatric heart failure – Executive summary (2014)

●PACES/Heart Rhythm Society (HRS): Expert consensus statement on the evaluation and management of ventricular arrhythmias in the child with a structurally normal heart (2014)

Canada

●Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS): Society guidelines for the presentation, diagnosis, and medical management of heart failure in children (2013)

United States

●American Heart Association (AHA): Scientific statement on complementary and alternative medicines in the management of heart failure (2023)

●AHA: Scientific statement on treatment strategies for cardiomyopathy in children (2023)

●American Society of Echocardiography (ASE): Recommendations for multimodality imaging for cardiac surveillance of cancer treatment in children (2023)

●AHA: A scientific statement on cardiomyopathy in children – Classifications and diagnosis (2019)

●AHA: A scientific statement on chronic heart failure in congenital heart disease (2016)

●AHA: A scientific statement on drugs that may cause or exacerbate heart failure (2016)

●Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society (PCICS): Consensus statement on pharmacotherapies in cardiac critical care chronic heart failure, 2014 (published 2016)

●PCICS: Consensus statement on pharmacotherapies in cardiac critical care treatment of acute heart failure, 2014 (published 2016)

Japan

●Japanese Circulation Society (JCS): Guideline on the clinical application of echocardiography (2021)