The Criteria Committee of the New York Heart Association. Nomenclature and Criteria for Diagnosis of Diseases of the Heart and Great Vessels. 9th ed. Boston, Mass: Little, Brown & Co; 1994:253-256. In 2001, the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology developed a rating system to evaluate the progression of heart failure symptoms.

2011 ACCF/AHA guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines Developed in Collaboration With the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, American Society of Echocardiography, American Society of Authors: Yancy CW, Jessup M, Bozkurt B, et al. Citation: 2017 ACC/AHA/HFSA Focused Update of the 2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Failure Society of America. Guideline Synopsis for Emergency Medicine. The Guidelines focuses on three areas: diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. Table 1 compares the level of evidence for several recommendations from the HFSA, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and the American Heart Association (AHA)/American College of Cardiology (ACC) heart failure guidelines. The number of people diagnosed with heart failure is increasing and projected to rise by 46% by 2030, resulting in more than 8 million people with heart failure, according to the American Heart Association's 2017 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics Update. Update of Guidelines for Heart Failure Management (2017) Since 1980, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association have teamed up to provide guidelines to improve heart health. Guidelines are based on evidence from research studies and updated with the most current recommendations. Societies Update Heart Failure Management Guid