The Living Guidelines: Patients with Heart Failure who have Concomitant Disorders. Polling Results for CLASS IIa Guidelines

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Class IIa Guidelines
1. It is reasonable to prescribe digitalis to control the ventricular response rate in patients with HF and atrial fibrillation. (Level of Evidence: A)

 ACC / AHA Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Heart Failure: Class IIa Recommendation 1 for patients with heart failure who have concomitant disorders should be: CLASS I CLASS IIa CLASS III CLASS III 2. It is reasonable to prescribe amiodarone to decrease recurrence of atrial arrhythmias and to decrease recurrence of ICD discharge for ventricular arrhythmias. (Level of Evidence: C)

 ACC / AHA Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Heart Failure: Class IIa Recommendation 2 for patients with heart failure who have concomitant disorders should be: CLASS I CLASS IIa CLASS III CLASS III