title: Management of atrial fibrillation around the world: a comparison of current ACCF/AHA/HRS, CCS, and ESC guidelines.
abstract: New guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation (AF) have recently been published by the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association, and Heart Rhythm Society (ACCF/AHA/HRS) task force on practice guidelines, the Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS), and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Although they all refer to the same scientific data and agree in the majority of AF management, interpretation, and weighing of study results are quite different in some aspects. While recommendations for stroke risk assessment and prophylaxis are rather conservative in the ESC guidelines, the CCS guideline recommendations are more conservative with regard to lenient rate control and the ACCF/AHA/HRS recommendations are rather strict with regard to rhythm management.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Division of Experimental and Clinical Electrophysiology, Hospital of Westfälische Wilhelms-University, Münster, Germany. wasmerk@ukmuenster.de
authors.forename: Kristina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wasmer
authors.forename: Lars
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Eckardt
mesh_terms: D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000628:therapy*; D002170:Canada; D019468:Disease Management; D005060:Europe; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014481:United States