Standards & Guidelines

This document is a multidisciplinary consensus document developed to examine the perioperative considerations for how best to manage patients with ECLS.

Advanced Lung Failure & Transplantation Anesthesiology & Critical Care Consensus Document Nursing & Allied Health Pediatrics Pharmacy Publications & Journals Pulmonology Standards & Guidelines

Endorsed by ISHLT, this document is a focused update to the 2020 report and describes performance measure for heart failure that are appropriate for public reporting or pay-for-performance programs.

Advanced Heart Failure & Transplantation Cardiology Endorsement Joint Statement Publications & Journals Standards & Guidelines

This guideline document aims to provide tools to help integrate the numerous variables involved in evaluating patients for transplantation, emphasizing updating the collaborative treatment while waiting for a transplant.

Advanced Heart Failure & Transplantation Cardiology Cardiothoracic Surgery Professional Guideline Publications & Journals Standards & Guidelines

The ISHLT Infectious Diseases Professional Community, in collaboration with the Transplant Infectious Diseases Section of The Transplantation Society, have developed a document to provide guidance to all of the transplant community.

Collaborative Endorsement Infectious Diseases Joint Statement Publications & Journals Standards & Guidelines

This ISHLT Consensus Statement is intended to assist clinicians caring for patients with a CF-LVAD provide the best care possible with respect to prevention and management of these events.

Consensus Document Mechanical Circulatory Support Pharmacy Publications & Journals Standards & Guidelines

Highlighting ethical considerations regarding heart and lung xenotransplantation, this paper encourages the readers to consider the vast potential of this emerging technique to do good, but also the risk of doing harm, and to participate in a discussion.

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Infections remain a significant concern in patients receiving both durable and acute MCS devices. This consensus manuscript provides updated definitions for infections associated with durable MCS devices and new definitions for infections in acute MCS.

Consensus Document Infectious Diseases Mechanical Circulatory Support Publications & Journals Standards & Guidelines

The purpose of this consensus statement is to provide an integrated perspective on the definition of frailty in advanced HF and to generate a consensus on how to assess and manage frailty.

Advanced Heart Failure & Transplantation Consensus Document Nursing & Allied Health Publications & Journals Standards & Guidelines

This consensus statement summarizes the results of a consensus conference premeeting survey answered by participants and the breakout sessions where predefined clinical issues were discussed to achieve consensus in the absence of robust data.

Advanced Heart Failure & Transplantation Cardiology Cardiothoracic Surgery Consensus Document Mechanical Circulatory Support Publications & Journals Standards & Guidelines

This consensus report summarizes the contemporary literature review on heart failure related cardiogenic shock presented in the first half of the conference.

Advanced Heart Failure & Transplantation Cardiology Cardiothoracic Surgery Consensus Document Mechanical Circulatory Support Publications & Journals Standards & Guidelines

This statement describes the impact and assessment of pre-transplant renal and hepatic dysfunction, provides an approach to patient selection, and explores the ethics of multiorgan transplant and the safety net approach to dual-organ transplant.

Advanced Heart Failure & Transplantation Endorsement Publications & Journals Standards & Guidelines

Given the substantial burden of CAD and publication of the 2021 ACC/AHA/SCAI Guideline for Coronary Artery Revascularization, it was deemed appropriate to develop a new set of performance and quality measures related to coronary artery revascularization.

Advanced Heart Failure & Transplantation Cardiology Endorsement Joint Statement Publications & Journals Standards & Guidelines

In 2013, ISHLT published the first official guidelines for implantable MCS. Ten years later, the update is available.

Cardiology Mechanical Circulatory Support Professional Guideline Publications & Journals Standards & Guidelines

A collaborative effort commissioned by ISHLT and HFSA has developed this critically-needed guideline for the management of patients requiring acute mechanical circulatory support.

Advanced Heart Failure & Transplantation Cardiology Joint Statement Mechanical Circulatory Support Professional Guideline Publications & Journals Standards & Guidelines

The ISHLT Guidelines for the Care of HTX Recipients updates the 2010 Guidelines to reflect advances made in the last 10+ years and to identify remaining gaps, with the goal of guiding transplant programs and encouraging further research to close gaps.

Advanced Heart Failure & Transplantation Anesthesiology & Critical Care Cardiology Cardiothoracic Surgery Nursing & Allied Health Professional Guideline Publications & Journals Research & Immunology Standards & Guidelines

The goal of this statement is to summarize the current evidence and provide guidance surrounding preconception counseling, patient risk assessment, medical management, maternal and fetal outcomes, obstetric management, and pharmacologic considerations.

Advanced Heart Failure & Transplantation Advanced Lung Failure & Transplantation Cardiology Consensus Document Nursing & Allied Health Publications & Journals Pulmonology Standards & Guidelines

These guidelines provide evidence-based and expert-consensus recommendations for the selection of donor hearts following brain death. These recommendations were compiled by an international panel of experts based on an extensive literature review.

Advanced Heart Failure & Transplantation Cardiology Cardiothoracic Surgery Nursing & Allied Health Professional Guideline Publications & Journals Standards & Guidelines

These consensus recommendations are intended to provide transplant clinicians with a summary of literature on maintenance immunosuppression in the modern era and to support transplant team members working to secure medication access for patients.

Advanced Heart Failure & Transplantation Advanced Lung Failure & Transplantation Consensus Document Endorsement Nursing & Allied Health Pharmacy Publications & Journals Research & Immunology Standards & Guidelines

These comprehensive clinical practice guidelines from ESC and ERS cover the whole spectrum of PH, with an emphasis on diagnosing and treating pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and chronic thrombo-embolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH).

Endorsement Publications & Journals Pulmonary Vascular Disease (PAH & CTEPH) Standards & Guidelines

ISHLT holds that there should be explicit policies, open to public scrutiny, governing all aspects of organ/tissue donation and transplantation, including the management of waiting lists for organs to ensure fair and appropriate access to transplantation.

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