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Appropriate Use Criteria| Volume 10, ISSUE 4, e11-e58, April 2013

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ACCF/HRS/AHA/ASE/HFSA/SCAI/SCCT/SCMR 2013 Appropriate Use Criteria for Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Appropriate Use Criteria Task Force,Heart Rhythm Society, American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography, Heart Failure Society of America, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, and Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
      Steven R. Bailey, MD, FACC, FSCAI, FAHA, Moderator

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