2024 ESC atrial fibrillation guidelines

Context Patients with atrial fibrillation (2024 ESC guideline)

Recipient

Recipient not specified

Population

Patients with atrial fibrillation. The ESC page summary gives no age limits and no inclusion criteria.

Care setting

Not stated on the ESC page.

Geography

Europe (a European Society of Cardiology guideline; the page names no jurisdiction)

Life stage

Not stated on the ESC page

Gestational age

Not reported

Postnatal age

Not reported

Follow-up

Not applicable (guideline context)

• Description Guidance Certainty not assessed

  The ESC page for the 2024 ESC atrial fibrillation guideline, dated 30 August 2024, says the task force developed a framework called AF-CARE for the guideline. The framework puts comorbidities and risk factors first, then avoiding stroke and thromboembolism, then reducing symptoms through rate and rhythm control, and finally individual evaluation and reassessment over time.

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  Applies to Recipient not specified

  • Patients with atrial fibrillation. The ESC page summary gives no age limits and no inclusion criteria.
  • Not stated on the ESC page.
  • Europe (a European Society of Cardiology guideline; the page names no jurisdiction)
  • Not stated on the ESC page
  • Gestational age Not reported
  • Postnatal age Not reported

  Follow-up Not applicable (guideline context)

  Certainty method

  Not assessed

  Limitations

  Only the ESC page summary and the PubMed record (which holds no abstract) were read; the guideline text, its recommendations and their classes were not. ESC content is cite only, so this atlas states the summary in its own words. PubMed lists one correction (2025-11-03); its text was not read, so it is not known whether it changes anything stated here.

  Last checked

  2026-10-15

  Next evidence check due

  Not scheduled

  Sources and citations (5)

  1. Supports 2024 ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)

     Guideline · European Heart Journal · Edition Issued by the European Society of Cardiology, in collaboration with EACTS, and published in European Heart Journal 45(36):3314-3414 (PubMed issue date 2024-09-29; the ESC page dates the guideline 30 Aug, 2024). PubMed holds no abstract and lists no PMC copy; the guideline text was not read. PubMed lists 1 correction to the guideline; their text was not read. The publisher field is the journal title as PubMed gives it. · Published 2024-08-30 · DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehae176 · PMID: 39210723

     Locator

     Summary paragraph 1, sentence 1, fragments 1 and 2

     How it applies

     The task force developed the AF-CARE framework.

     Retrieved

     2026-10-15T13:52:08Z

     Source effective date

     Not reported

     Source state

     Corrected

     Snapshot hash

     f4692f3ade321c24fe6c176fc5cc597fcf6c1faf277ee973f9bd134c3d62e14e

     Reuse basis

     ESC page fetched with a plain Mozilla/5.0 user agent on 2026-10-15, and a PubMed record fetched through NCBI E-utilities the same day. Only hashes are kept; nothing is committed. The ESC page states that its guidelines are for personal or educational use with no commercial use, that re-use permission must be obtained from the publisher, and that the ESC reserves the right to license use of its guidelines to train generative AI models (EU Directive 2019/790, Article 4 section 3). Public text is cite_only: public pages state the guideline in the atlas's own words, with a citation and a link, and use no ESC wording. Quote rows are short evidence fragments for the reviewer.

  2. Supports 2024 ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)

     Guideline · European Heart Journal · Edition Issued by the European Society of Cardiology, in collaboration with EACTS, and published in European Heart Journal 45(36):3314-3414 (PubMed issue date 2024-09-29; the ESC page dates the guideline 30 Aug, 2024). PubMed holds no abstract and lists no PMC copy; the guideline text was not read. PubMed lists 1 correction to the guideline; their text was not read. The publisher field is the journal title as PubMed gives it. · Published 2024-08-30 · DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehae176 · PMID: 39210723

     Locator

     Summary paragraph 2, sentence 1

     How it applies

     Comorbidities and risk factors come first.

     Retrieved

     2026-10-15T13:52:08Z

     Source effective date

     Not reported

     Source state

     Corrected

     Snapshot hash

     f4692f3ade321c24fe6c176fc5cc597fcf6c1faf277ee973f9bd134c3d62e14e

     Reuse basis

     ESC page fetched with a plain Mozilla/5.0 user agent on 2026-10-15, and a PubMed record fetched through NCBI E-utilities the same day. Only hashes are kept; nothing is committed. The ESC page states that its guidelines are for personal or educational use with no commercial use, that re-use permission must be obtained from the publisher, and that the ESC reserves the right to license use of its guidelines to train generative AI models (EU Directive 2019/790, Article 4 section 3). Public text is cite_only: public pages state the guideline in the atlas's own words, with a citation and a link, and use no ESC wording. Quote rows are short evidence fragments for the reviewer.

  3. Supports 2024 ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)

     Guideline · European Heart Journal · Edition Issued by the European Society of Cardiology, in collaboration with EACTS, and published in European Heart Journal 45(36):3314-3414 (PubMed issue date 2024-09-29; the ESC page dates the guideline 30 Aug, 2024). PubMed holds no abstract and lists no PMC copy; the guideline text was not read. PubMed lists 1 correction to the guideline; their text was not read. The publisher field is the journal title as PubMed gives it. · Published 2024-08-30 · DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehae176 · PMID: 39210723

     Locator

     Summary paragraph 2, sentence 3, fragments 1 and 2

     How it applies

     Then stroke avoidance, then rate and rhythm control.

     Retrieved

     2026-10-15T13:52:08Z

     Source effective date

     Not reported

     Source state

     Corrected

     Snapshot hash

     f4692f3ade321c24fe6c176fc5cc597fcf6c1faf277ee973f9bd134c3d62e14e

     Reuse basis

     ESC page fetched with a plain Mozilla/5.0 user agent on 2026-10-15, and a PubMed record fetched through NCBI E-utilities the same day. Only hashes are kept; nothing is committed. The ESC page states that its guidelines are for personal or educational use with no commercial use, that re-use permission must be obtained from the publisher, and that the ESC reserves the right to license use of its guidelines to train generative AI models (EU Directive 2019/790, Article 4 section 3). Public text is cite_only: public pages state the guideline in the atlas's own words, with a citation and a link, and use no ESC wording. Quote rows are short evidence fragments for the reviewer.

  4. Supports 2024 ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)

     Guideline · European Heart Journal · Edition Issued by the European Society of Cardiology, in collaboration with EACTS, and published in European Heart Journal 45(36):3314-3414 (PubMed issue date 2024-09-29; the ESC page dates the guideline 30 Aug, 2024). PubMed holds no abstract and lists no PMC copy; the guideline text was not read. PubMed lists 1 correction to the guideline; their text was not read. The publisher field is the journal title as PubMed gives it. · Published 2024-08-30 · DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehae176 · PMID: 39210723

     Locator

     Summary paragraph 2, sentence 4, fragments 1 and 2

     How it applies

     Evaluation and reassessment are individualised.

     Retrieved

     2026-10-15T13:52:08Z

     Source effective date

     Not reported

     Source state

     Corrected

     Snapshot hash

     f4692f3ade321c24fe6c176fc5cc597fcf6c1faf277ee973f9bd134c3d62e14e

     Reuse basis

     ESC page fetched with a plain Mozilla/5.0 user agent on 2026-10-15, and a PubMed record fetched through NCBI E-utilities the same day. Only hashes are kept; nothing is committed. The ESC page states that its guidelines are for personal or educational use with no commercial use, that re-use permission must be obtained from the publisher, and that the ESC reserves the right to license use of its guidelines to train generative AI models (EU Directive 2019/790, Article 4 section 3). Public text is cite_only: public pages state the guideline in the atlas's own words, with a citation and a link, and use no ESC wording. Quote rows are short evidence fragments for the reviewer.

  5. Background 2024 ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)

     Guideline · European Heart Journal · Edition Issued by the European Society of Cardiology, in collaboration with EACTS, and published in European Heart Journal 45(36):3314-3414 (PubMed issue date 2024-09-29; the ESC page dates the guideline 30 Aug, 2024). PubMed holds no abstract and lists no PMC copy; the guideline text was not read. PubMed lists 1 correction to the guideline; their text was not read. The publisher field is the journal title as PubMed gives it. · Published 2024-08-30 · DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehae176 · PMID: 39210723

     Locator

     CommentsCorrectionsList, ErratumIn entry

     How it applies

     Shows that a correction exists. What it changes is unknown.

     Retrieved

     2026-10-15T13:48:59Z

     Source effective date

     Not reported

     Source state

     Corrected

     Snapshot hash

     d1e19df4582f266be4c28fb304dded1b0ab0d5dd529a9ee1c995e235b663df5c

     Reuse basis

     ESC page fetched with a plain Mozilla/5.0 user agent on 2026-10-15, and a PubMed record fetched through NCBI E-utilities the same day. Only hashes are kept; nothing is committed. The ESC page states that its guidelines are for personal or educational use with no commercial use, that re-use permission must be obtained from the publisher, and that the ESC reserves the right to license use of its guidelines to train generative AI models (EU Directive 2019/790, Article 4 section 3). Public text is cite_only: public pages state the guideline in the atlas's own words, with a citation and a link, and use no ESC wording. Quote rows are short evidence fragments for the reviewer.