Standards & Guidelines

Standards & Guidelines Committee

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The ISHLT Standards & Guidelines Committee manages and facilitates the creation of policy and guideline documentations within the Society.

As part of its mission, ISHLT engages in the regular development of Professional Practice Guidelines and Consensus Statements, Health Policy Guidance Statements, Standards Statements, and Public Comments regarding professional practice matters and the care of patients with advanced heart and/or lung disease.

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ISHLT Consensus Statement on the Perioperative Use of ECLS in Lung Transplantation: Part I - Preoperative Considerations
17 October 2025

This document is a multidisciplinary consensus document developed to examine the perioperative considerations …
ISHLT Consensus Statement on the Referral and Selection of Pediatric Lung Transplant Candidates
8 October 2025

This document is meant to assist pediatric care providers in identifying potential candidates for …
ISHLT Consensus Statement on Risk Stratification in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
5 September 2025

This document provides clinicians with a practical framework for the application of risk stratification …
ISHLT Statement on Vaccines in Transplant Recipients
27 August 2025

ISHLT reaffirms its strong support for the role of vaccines in protecting the health and survival of …
ISHLT Guidelines for the Management of Pediatric Heart Failure
21 August 2025

An update to the document published in 2014, this guideline for the management of pediatric heart failure …
Summary of the ISHLT Consensus Conference on Emerging Understanding of Antibodies and Antibody-Mediated Rejection in Heart Transplantation
11 June 2025

This Consensus Conference Summary presents the findings and consensus statements from the April 2023 …
ISHLT Consensus Statement on the Perioperative Use of ECLS in Lung Transplantation: Part III - Postoperative Considerations
2 June 2025

This document is a multidisciplinary consensus document developed to examine the perioperative considerations …
A Consensus-Based Framework for the Psychosocial Evaluation of Pediatric Candidates for Cardiothoracic Transplant and Ventricular Assist Devices
1 April 2025

Endorsd by ISHLT, this consensus-based framework represents the first of it's kind specific to both the …
ISHLT Consensus Statement on the Perioperative Use of ECLS in Lung Transplantation: Part II - Intraoperative Considerations
23 October 2024

This document is a multidisciplinary consensus document developed to examine the perioperative considerations …
2024 Update to the 2020 ACC/AHA Clinical Performance and Quality Measures for Adults With Heart Failure
8 August 2024

Endorsed by ISHLT, this document is a focused update to the 2020 report and describes performance measure …