Standards & Guidelines
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Guidance for Organ Donation and Transplantation Professionals Regarding the Zika Virus4 February 2016
After careful review of the information available from the CDC, OPTN/UNOS, AST, and ASTS provide the information in this document for transplant centers and OPOs in light of the spread of Zika virus.
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The 2015 ISHLT Guidelines for the Management of Fungal Infections in Mechanical Circulatory Support and Cardiothoracic Organ Transplant Recipients: Executive Summary19 January 2016
Developed by a panel convened by the ISHLT Infectious Diseases Council, this document summarizes the most current literature in the field of fungal infections related to MCS and heart/lung transplantation. This document is also available en Español.
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The 2016 ISHLT Listing Criteria for Heart Transplantation: A 10-year Update1 January 2016
This focused update concentrates on evolving areas of importance that were not fully addressed in the 2016 Guidelines, including congenital heart disease, restrictive cardiomyopathy and infectious disease. This document is also available en Español.
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2015 ESC/ERS Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary HypertensionThe Joint Task Force for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension of the ESC and the ERS1 January 2016
This guideline, developed by a task force representing the multidisciplinary nature of PH, was developed to update the two previous iterations, published in 2004 and 2009.
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Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Disease Ventricular AssistDevice Support Core Competency CurriculumFirst Edition1 June 2015
This core competency document provides a practical and concise clinical review for medical professionals to develop understanding and management of VADS and the Total Artificial Heart in children with and without congenital heart disease.
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Thoracic Transplant Pharmacy Professionals Core Competency CurriculumFirst Edition1 June 2015
The purpose of this compendium is to provide a concise synopsis of clinical knowledge and associated essential professional skills to facilitate the mastery of pharmacotherapy involved in the care of patients receiving a heart or lung transplant.
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Antibody-Mediated Rejection in Cardiac Transplantation: Emerging Knowledge in Diagnosis and ManagementA Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association2 April 2015
This statement provides heart transplant professionals with an overview of the current status of the diagnosis and treatment of AMR in the cardiac allograft, and recommendations to facilitate evolving standardization and strategies for future study.
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Diagnosis and Management of Bronchiolitis Obliterans SyndromeAn International ISHLT/ATS/ERS Clinical Practice Guideline1 December 2014
ISHLT, ATS and ERSconvened a committee of international experts to describe and/or provide recommendations for the definition of BOS, the risk factors for developing BOS, the diagnosis of BOS, and the management and prevention of BOS.
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Adult Cardiothoracic Transplant NursingAn ISHLT Consensus Document on the Current Adult Nursing Practice in Heart and Lung Transplantation25 November 2014
Delineation of roles and guidelines for education, certification, licensure and staffing levels of transplant nurses are needed to support all nurses. This consensus document provides such recommendations and draws attention to areas for future research.
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A Consensus Document for the Selection of Lung Transplant Candidates: 2014An Update from the Pulmonary Transplantation Council of ISHLT26 June 2014
Updated from the previously published 1998 and 2006 versions, this Third Edition of the Consensus Document aims is to assist physicians in properly identifying patients who are most likely to benefit from lung transplantation. Also available en Español.
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Guidelines for the Management of Pediatric Heart Failure: Executive Summary16 June 2014
These guidelines have been produced to bring together current recommendations on the evaluation and management of pediatric heart failure (HF) and update the previous guideline.
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Report from a Consensus Conference on Primary Graft Dysfunction after Cardiac Transplantation7 March 2014
The results of a consensus conference held in April 2013 o formulate guidelines to better define, diagnose, and manage the care of patients with primary graft dysfunction (PGD) in heart transplantation.
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2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of Heart FailureA Report of the ACCF/AHA Task Force on Practice Guidelines5 June 2013
This guideline covers multiple management issues for the adult patient with heart failure.
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Clinical Statement on the Requirements for Surgeon Certification for Implantation of Durable Ventricular Assist Devices (VADs)1 May 2013
The goal of the criteria for surgeon certification is to demonstrate competency in the technical aspects of VAD implantation and in VAD patient management and establish a minimum standard of training and experience.
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The 2013 ISHLT Guidelines for Mechanical Circulatory Support: Executive Summary1 February 2013
This document focuses on long-term MCS device therapy with the goal of patient discharge from the hospital.
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Ethical and Policy Considerations in Organ Donation after Circulatory Determination of DeathAn Official ATS/ISHLT/SCCM/AOPO/UNOS Statement1 July 2012
This document establishes a framework to guide ethics and health policy statement, and addresses the consent process, pre- and post mortem interventions, the determination of death, provisions of end-of-life care, and pediatric DCDD.
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Working Formulation for the Standardization of Definitions of Infections in Patients using Ventricular Assist Devices1 April 2011
The purpose of this document is to provide consensus-derived, standard international definitions that include not only major infection but also comprehensive details of all aspects of VAD-specific and VAD-related infection in these patients.
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A 2010 Working Formulation for the Standardization of Definitions of Infections in Cardiothoracic Transplant Recipients1 April 2011
The purpose of the present working formulation is to provide consensus-derived expert opinion of definitions for infections in CTTX for epidemiologic, research and registry data use.
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2010 ISHLT Guidelines for the Care of Heart Transplant Recipients1 August 2010
ISHLT convened experts from around the globe to participate in the development of a set of complete practice guidelines covering all aspects related to the care of heart transplant recipients.
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ISHLT Working Formulation of a Standardized Nomenclature for Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy—20101 July 2010
This document represents a working formulation for an international nomenclature of cardiac allograft vasculopathy, similar to the development of the system for adjudication of cardiac allograft rejection by histology.
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