About this app

Access the American College of Cardiology’s clinical guideline recommendations and use interactive tools such as risk scores, dosing calculators, and algorithms through the ACC’s Guideline Clinical App. The App also includes features such as customizable bookmarks, note-taking, and emailable pdfs. ACC’s Guideline App is free to both members and nonmembers.

This app is the ACC’s mobile home for clinical guideline content and tools for clinicians caring for patients with cardiovascular disease. Current guidelines in the App include:

• Atrial Fibrillation (AF)
• Cardiovascular Risk (CV Risk)
• Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG)
• Cholesterol (Chol)
• Device-Based Therapy (DBT)
• Dual Antiplatelet Therapy Update (DAPT)
• Heart Failure (HF)
• High Blood Pressure (BP)
• Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM)
• Lifestyle (Lstyle)
• Non–ST-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes (NSTEMI)
• Obesity
• Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)
• Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD)
• Perioperative Management for Noncardiac Surgery (Periop)
• Stable Ischemic Heart Disease (SIHD)
• ST-Elevated Myocardial Infarction (STEMI)
• Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT)
• Syncope
• Valvular Heart Disease (VHD)
• Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death (VA/SCD)

Stay tuned for ongoing updates, more guideline content, and tools.

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The information, text, graphics, images, trademarks and other materials (collectively, “Content”) that may be contained in the Guidelines Mobile Application (“App”) is presented as an educational service intended for licensed health care professionals. While the Content in the App is about specific medical and health care issues, the Content is not a substitute for or replacement of personalized medical advice and is not intended to be used as the sole basis for making individualized medical or health-related decisions.

The views and opinions expressed in the App are those of the contributing authors and editors and do not necessarily represent the views of the ACCF. The Content is not intended to present the only, or necessarily best, methods or procedures for the medical situations addressed, but rather is intended to represent an approach, view, statement or opinion. ACCF hereby expressly disclaims responsibility for any liability arising from or in connection with the application of the Content in the App by you.

New features

The Guideline Clinical App has been updated to a new, more modern framework offering improved app navigation, an enhanced user interface and new features such as push notifications and shareable content links. The App is also updated with new interactive tools and updated content for the 2024 Perioperative Management Guideline.

App Permissions

Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows access to the vibrator.