Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: The ESC Guidelines represent the views of the ESC and were produced after careful consideration of the scientific and medical knowledge and the evidence available at the time of their dating.The ESC is not responsible in the event of any contradiction, discrepancy and/or ambiguity between the ESC Guidelines and any other official recommendations or guidelines issued by the relevant public health authorities, in particular in relation to good use of health care or therapeutic strategies.Health professionals are encouraged to take the ESC Guidelines fully into account when exercising their clinical judgment, as well as in the determination and the implementation of preventive, diagnostic or therapeutic medical strategies; however, the ESC Guidelines do not override, in any way whatsoever, the individual responsibility of health professionals to make appropriate and accurate decisions in consideration of each patient's health condition and in consultation with that patient and, where appropriate and/or necessary, the patient's caregiver.Nor do the ESC Guidelines exempt health professionals from taking full and careful consideration of the relevant official updated recommendations or guidelines issued by the competent public health authorities in order to manage each patient's case in light of the scientifically accepted data pursuant to their respective ethical and professional obligations.It is also the health professional's responsibility to verify the applicable rules and regulations relating to drugs and medical devices at the time of prescription.
Source: European Heart Journal
Authors: Authors/Task Force members, Raimund Erbel, Victor Aboyans, Catherine Boileau, Eduardo Bossone, Roberto Di Bartolomeo, Holger Eggebrecht, Arturo Evangelista, Volkmar Falk, Herbert Frank, Oliver Gaemperli, Martin Grabenwöger, Axel Haverich, Bernard Iung, Athanasios John Manolis, Folkert Meijboom, Christoph A. Nienaber, Marco Roffi, Hervé Rousseau, Udo Sechtem, Per Anton Sirnes, Regula S. von Allmen, Christiaan J.M. Vrints, Jose Luis Zamorano, Stephan Achenbach, Helmut Baumgartner, Jeroen J. Bax, Héctor Bueno, Veronica Dean, Christi Deaton, Çetin Erol, Robert Fagard, Roberto Ferrari, David Hasdai, Arno Hoes, Paulus Kirchhof, Juhani Knuuti, Philippe Kolh, Patrizio Lancellotti, Ales Linhart, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, Massimo F. Piepoli, Piotr Ponikowski, Per Anton Sirnes, Juan Luis Tamargo, Michal Tendera, Adam Torbicki, William Wijns, Stephan Windecker, Document reviewers, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, Michal Tendera, Martin Czerny, John Deanfield, Carlo Di Mario, Mauro Pepi, Maria Jesus Salvador Taboada, Marc R. van Sambeek, Charalambos Vlachopoulos, Jose Luis Zamorano, Michael Grimm, Oktay Musayev, Agnès Pasquet, Zumreta Kušljugić, Maja Cikes, Georgios P. Georghiou, Josef Stasek, Henning Molgaard, Sirje Kõvask;, Ville Kytö, Guillaume Jondeau, Zviad Bakhutashvili, Yskert von Kodolitsch, Costas Tsioufis, András Temesvári, Ronen Rubinshtein, Francesco Antonini-Canterin, Olga Lunegova, Peteris Stradins, Elie Chammas, Regina Jonkaitiene, Andrew Cassar, Knut Bjørnstad, Kazimierz Widenka, Miguel Sousa Uva, Daniel Lighezan, Jovan Perunicic, Juraj Madaric, Isidre Vilacosta, Magnus Bäck, Abdallah Mahdhaoui, Recep Demirbag, Ivan Kravchenko
Language: English
Subfield: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3094777985