2014 AATS guidelines for the prevention and management of perioperative atrial fibrillation and flutter for thoracic surgical procedures. Executive summary

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. Electronic address: gfrendl@partners.org.
• ² Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
• ³ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heart and Vascular Institute, Department of Molecular Cardiology, Lerner Research Institute Cleveland Clinic, Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
• ⁴ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio.
• ⁵ Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minn.
• ⁶ Department of Pharmacy Practice, College of Pharmacy, Purdue University and Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Ind.
• ⁷ Department of Medicine, Cardiac Arrhythmia Service, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
• ⁸ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
• ⁹ Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minn.
• ¹⁰ Center for Heart and Vascular Care, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
• ¹¹ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Arrhythmia Service, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn.
• ¹² Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
• ¹³ Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ¹⁴ Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, New York, NY.
• ¹⁵ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.