美国超声心动图指南.pdf

文档介绍：ACC/AHA Guideline
ACC/AHA/ASE 2003 Guideline Update for the Clinical
Application of Echocardiography: Summary Article
A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart
Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (ACC/AHA/ASE
Committee to Update the 1997 Guidelines for the Clinical Application
of Echocardiography)
Committee Members
Melvin D. Cheitlin, MD, , Chair; William F. Armstrong, MD, , FAHA;
Gerard P. Aurigemma, MD, , FAHA; e A. Beller, MD, , FAHA;
Fredrick Z. Bierman, MD, ; Jack L. Davis, MD, ;
Pamela S. Douglas, MD, , FAHA, FASE; David P. Faxon, MD, , FAHA;
Linda D. Gillam, MD, , FAHA; Thomas R. Kimball, MD, ;
William G. Kussmaul, MD, ; Alan S. Pearlman, MD, , FAHA, FASE;
John T. Philbrick, MD, FACP; Harry Rakowski, MD, , FASE;
Daniel M. Thys, MD, , FAHA
Task Force Members
Elliott M. Antman, MD, , FAHA, Chair; Sidney C. Smith, Jr, MD, , FAHA, Vice-Chair;
Joseph S. Alpert, MD, , FAHA; Gabriel Gregoratos, MD, , FAHA;
Jeffrey L. Anderson, MD, ; Loren F. Hiratzka, MD, , FAHA;
David P. Faxon, MD, , FAHA; Sharon Ann Hunt, MD, , FAHA;
Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, , FAHA; Alice K. Jacobs, MD, , FAHA;
Raymond J. Gibbons, MD, , FAHA*†; Richard O. Russell, MD, , FAHA*
*Former Task Force Member. †Immediate Past Task Force Chair.
I. General Considerations and Scope and growth in its clinical use and in the scientific evidence
The previous guideline for the use of echocardiography was leading to mendations for its proper use.
published in March 1997. Since that time, there have been Each section has been reviewed and updated in evidence
significant advances in the technology of echocardiography tables, and where appropriate, changes have been made in
This document was approved by the American College of Cardiology Foundation Board of Trustees in May 2003, by the American Heart Association
Science Advisory and mittee in May 2003, and by the American Society of Echocardiography Board of Directors in May 2003.