Correction

Please note that the 2002 ACC/AHA guideline update on perioperative cardiovascular evaluation for noncardiac surgery (Eagle KA, Berger PB, Calkins H, Chaitman BR, Ewy GA, Fleischmann KE, Fleisher LA, Froehlich JB, Gusberg RJ, Leppo JA, Ryan T, Schlant RC, Winters WL Jr. ACC/AHA guideline update for perioperative cardiovascular evaluation for noncardiac surgery: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines [Committee to Update the 1996 Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation for Noncardiac Surgery]. Published in 2002 at http://www.acc.org/clinical/guidelines/perio/clean/pdf/perio_pdf.pdfand www.americanheart.org.) has been updated with a focused update on perioperative beta-blocker therapy. The updated recommendation, “ACC/AHA 2006 guideline update on perioperative cardiovascular evaluation for noncardiac surgery: focused update on perioperative beta-blocker therapy: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Update the 2002 Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation for Noncardiac Surgery),” has been published in the June 6, 2006, issues of Journal of the American College of Cardiology(J Am Coll Cardiol 2006;47:2343–55) and Circulation. This focused update replaces the recommendations, text, and table on perioperative beta-blocker therapy in the 2002 guideline.

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