Society guideline links: Infections involving cardiac implantable electronic devices

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.

The recommendations in the following guidelines may vary from those that appear in UpToDate topic reviews. Readers who are looking for UpToDate topic reviews should use the UpToDate search box to find the relevant content.

Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Cardiac implantable electronic devices".)

International

●Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), American College of Cardiology (ACC), American Heart Association (AHA), Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS), American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA), Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), Latin American Heart Rhythm Society (LAHRS), Pediatric and Congenital Electrophysiology Society (PACES), and Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS): Expert consensus statement on cardiovascular implantable electronic device lead management and extraction (2017, reaffirmed 2022)

●EHRA, HRS, APHRS, LAHRS, European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID), and International Society for Cardiovascular Infectious Diseases (ISCVID): International consensus document on how to prevent, diagnose, and treat cardiac implantable electronic device infections (2020)

Canada

●Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS)/Canadian Heart Rhythm Society (CHRS): Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator society guidelines, 2016 (published 2017)

United States

●American Heart Association (AHA): A scientific statement on cardiovascular implantable electronic device infections and their prevention, diagnosis, and management, update (2024)

Europe

●European Society of Cardiology (ESC): Guidelines for the management of endocarditis (2023)