2002 Guideline Update for Implantation of Cardiac Pacemakers and Antiarrhythmia Devices | Heart Rhythm Society

2002 Guideline Update for Implantation of Cardiac Pacemakers and Antiarrhythmia Devices

September 1, 2002—The focus of these guidelines is the appropriate use of devices (pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators), not the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.


 This document has been retired and replaced by ACC/AHA/HRS 2008 Guidelines for Device-Based Therapy of Cardiac Rhythm Abnormalities and subsequently by 2012 ACCF/AHA/HRS Focused Update of the 2008 Guidelines for Device-Based Therapy of Cardiac Rhythm Abnormalities.

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