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Clinical Practice Guidelines

Informing the global cardiothoracic community with the latest evidence-based guidelines and scientific documents

We develop evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and other scientific documents that aim to improve patient care and outcomes.
  • 14 Feb 2025

2024 EACTS/EACTAIC/EBCP Guidelines on cardiopulmonary bypass in adult cardiac surgery

Acquired Cardiac Disease
  • 14 Oct 2024

2024 EACTS/EACTAIC Guidelines on patient blood management in adult cardiac surgery in collaboration with EBCP

Acquired Cardiac Disease
  • 14 Oct 2024

Harmonizing guidelines and other clinical practice documents: A joint comprehensive methodology manual by the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS), European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS), and Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) 

Acquired Cardiac Disease Aortic Disease Congenital Heart Disease Thoracic Disease
  • 14 Oct 2024

2024 EACTS Guidelines on perioperative medication in adult cardiac surgery

Acquired Cardiac Disease
  • 28 Feb 2024

EACTS expert consensus statement on perioperative myocardial infarction after cardiac surgery

Acquired Cardiac Disease
  • 07 Oct 2023

Preinterventional frailty assessment in patients scheduled for cardiac surgery or transcatheter aortic valve implantation: a consensus statement of the EACTS/ EAPC of the ESC

Acquired Cardiac Disease
  • 26 Aug 2023

2022 Joint ESC/EACTS review of the 2018 guideline recommendations on the revascularization of left main coronary artery disease in patients at low surgical risk and anatomy suitable for PCI or CABG

Acquired Cardiac Disease
  • 29 Mar 2022

EACTS Statement regarding 2021 AHA/ ACC/SCAI Coronary Artery Revascularization Guidelines

Acquired Cardiac Disease
  • 24 Mar 2022

HVAD to HeartMate 3 left ventricular assist device exchange: Best practices recommendations

Acquired Cardiac Disease
  • 17 Mar 2022

Joint Surgical Associations (EACTS, LACES, ASCVTS, AATS, and STS) Position Statement Regarding the VARC-3 Definitions for Aortic Valve Clinical Research

Acquired Cardiac Disease
  • 12 Feb 2022

The European Registry for Patients with Mechanical Circulatory Support of the EACTS: third report

Acquired Cardiac Disease
  • 28 Aug 2021

2021 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease

Acquired Cardiac Disease
  • 18 Jan 2021

Composition, structure, and function of heart teams: a joint position paper of the ACVC, EAPCI, EACTS, and EACTA focused on the management of patients with complex coronary artery disease requiring myocardial revascularization 

Acquired Cardiac Disease
  • 07 Oct 2020

2020 EACTS/ELSO/STS/AATS expert consensus on post-cardiotomy extracorporeal life support in adult patients

Acquired Cardiac Disease
  • 06 Oct 2020

Essential information on surgical heart valve characteristics for optimal valve prosthesis selection: expert consensus document from the EACTS–STS–AATS Valve Labelling Task Force

Acquired Cardiac Disease
  • 02 Oct 2019

2019 EACTS/EACTA/EBCP guidelines on cardiopulmonary bypass in adult cardiac surgery

Acquired Cardiac Disease
  • 27 Aug 2018

2018 ESC/EACTS Guidelines on myocardial revascularization

Acquired Cardiac Disease

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