Society guideline links: Percutaneous coronary intervention

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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: Coronary artery bypass graft surgery".)

Canada

●Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS)/Canadian Association of Interventional Cardiology (CAIC)/Canadian Society of Cardiac Surgery (CSCS): Position statement on revascularization – Multivessel coronary artery disease (2014)

United States

●American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA)/American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)/National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP)/Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI): Guideline for the management of patients with acute coronary syndromes (2025)

●AHA/ACC/American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP)/American Society for Preventive Cardiology (ASPC)/National Lipid Association (NLA)/Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association (PCNA): Guideline for the management of patients with chronic coronary disease (2023)

●ACC/AHA/SCAI: Guideline for coronary artery revascularization, 2021 (published 2022)

●AHA: Scientific statement on radial artery access and best practices for transradial coronary angiography and intervention in acute coronary syndrome, update (2018)

Europe

●European Society of Cardiology (ESC): Guidelines for the management of chronic coronary syndromes (2024)

●ESC: Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes (2023)

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

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Interventional procedures guidance on intravascular lithotripsy to treat calcified coronary arteries during percutaneous coronary intervention (2025)

●NICE: Guideline on acute coronary syndromes (2020)

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

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on percutaneous insertion of a temporary heart pump for left ventricular haemodynamic support in high-risk percutaneous coronary interventions (2018)

●Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN): A national clinical guideline for the management of stable angina (2018)

●NICE: Clinical guideline on stable angina – Management (2011, updated 2016)

●SIGN: A national clinical guideline on acute coronary syndrome (2016)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on optical coherence tomography to guide percutaneous coronary intervention (2014)

Japan

●[In Japanese] Japanese Circulation Society (JCS): Guidelines focused update on antithrombotic therapy in patients with coronary artery disease (2020)

●[In English] Japanese Association of Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics (CVIT): Expert consensus document on primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) (2018)

●[In Japanese] JCS: Guideline on revascularization of stable coronary artery disease (2018)