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Article: Experts unveil new CVD guidelines and position papers.
- Article from:
- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- November 15, 2009
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Several new guidelines and position papers offering the most up to date information to ensure that clinicians practice evidence-based medicine were released at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2009 this week. Among them are the following: 2009 CCS Canadian Cholesterol Guidelines 2009 CCS Consensus Conference Update on the Guidelines for the Management of Adults with Congenital Heart Disease CCS/Canadian Association of Radiologists Consensus Training Standards for Cardiac CT 2009 CCS Heart Failure Guidelines
Guidelines are one of the highest priorities of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS), says their president Dr. Charles Kerr. "They are one of our ...
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