The 2006 Guidelines for Management of Patients with Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD) were released by the American College of Cardiology (ACC), American Heart Association (AHA), and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in collaboration with the European Heart Rhythm Association EHRA) and the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS)on 21st August. ESC.

The executive summary will be published in the September 5, 2006 issues of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, and the first September issue of the European Heart Journal (Eur Heart J 2006;27:2099–2140). The full-text guideline is published in Europace and e-published in the same issue of the journals noted above, as well as posted on the ACC (www.acc.org), AHA www.americanheart.org), and ESC (www.escardio.org) sites.