Clinical Practice Guideline: Executive Summary

2017 ACC/AHA/HRS Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of Patients With Syncope: Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society

Developed in Collaboration With the American College of Emergency Physicians and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

Endorsed by the Pediatric and Congenital Electrophysiology Society

This document was approved by the American College of Cardiology Clinical Policy Approval Committee on behalf of the Board of Trustees, the American Heart Association Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee, the American Heart Association Executive Committee, and the Heart Rhythm Society Board of Trustees in January 2017.

The American College of Cardiology requests that this document be cited as follows: Shen W-K, Sheldon RS, Benditt DG, Cohen MI, Forman DE, Goldberger ZD, Grubb BP, Hamdan MH, Krahn AD, Link MS, Olshansky B, Raj SR, Sandhu RK, Sorajja D, Sun BC, Yancy CW. 2017 ACC/AHA/HRS guideline for the evaluation and management of patients with syncope: executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology /American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society. J Am Coll Cardiol 2017;70:620–63.

This article has been copublished in Circulation and HeartRhythm.

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ACC/AHA Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines Liaison.

ACC/AHA Representative.

HRS Representative.

ACEP and SAEM Joint Representative.

ACC/AHA Task Force on Performance Measures Liaison.