Practice Guideline

2011 ACCF/AHA Focused Update of the Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Unstable Angina/Non–ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (Updating the 2007 Guideline): A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines Developed in Collaboration With the American College of Emergency Physicians, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, and Society of Thoracic Surgeons

This document was approved by the American College of Cardiology Foundation Board of Trustees and the American Heart Association Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee in December 2010.

The American College of Cardiology Foundation requests that this document be cited as follows: Wright RS, Anderson JL, Adams CD, Bridges CR, Casey DE Jr, Ettinger SM, Fesmire FM, Ganiats TG, Jneid H, Lincoff AM, Peterson ED, Philippides GJ, Theroux P, Wenger NK, Zidar JP. 2011 ACCF/AHA focused update of the guidelines for the management of patients with unstable angina/non–ST-elevation myocardial infarction (updating the 2007 guideline): a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. J Am Coll Cardiol 2011;57:1920–59.

This article has been copublished in Circulation.

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ACCF/AHA Representative.

Recused from voting on Section 3.2. Recommendations for Antiplatelet/Anticoagulant Therapy in Patients for Whom Diagnosis of UA/NSTEMI Is Likely or Definite and Section 5.2.1. Recommendations for Convalescent and Long-Term Antiplatelet Therapy.

Society of Thoracic Surgeons Representative.

American College of Physicians Representative.

ACCF/AHA Task Force on Practice Guidelines Liaison.

American College of Emergency Physicians Representative.

American Academy of Family Physicians Representative.

ACCF/AHA Task Force on Performance Measures Liaison.

Society of Coronary Angiography and Interventions Representative.