A link to the Copyright Permissions Request Form appears on the right side of the page. 2015 ACC/AHA/SCAI Focused Update on Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Patients With ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: An Update of the 2011 ACCF/AHA/SCAI Guideline for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and the 2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions Endorsed by the Latin American Society of Interventional Cardiology PCI WRITING COMMITTEE* Glenn N. Levine, MD, FACC, FAHA, Chair ; Eric R. Bates, MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI, Vice Chair* ; James C. Blankenship, MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI, Vice Chair* ; Steven R. Bailey, MD, FACC, FSCAI* ; John A. Bittl, MD, FACC ; Bojan Cercek, MD, FACC, FAHA ; Charles E. Chambers, MD, FACC, FSCAI ; Stephen G. Ellis, MD, FACC* ; Robert A. Guyton, MD, FACC ; Steven M. Hollenberg, MD, FACC* ; Umesh N. Khot, MD, FACC* ; Richard A. Lange, MD, FACC, FAHA ; Laura Mauri, MD, MSc, FACC, FSCAI* ; Roxana Mehran, MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI* ; Issam D. Moussa, MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI ; Debabrata Mukherjee, MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI ; Henry H. Ting, MD, FACC, FAHA STEMI WRITING COMMITTEE* Patrick T. O Gara, MD, FACC, FAHA, Chair ; Frederick G. Kushner, MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI, Vice Chair ; Deborah D. Ascheim, MD, FACC ; Ralph G. Brindis, MD, MPH, MACC, FSCAI, FAHA ; Donald E. Casey, Jr, MD, MPH, MBA, FAHA ; Mina K. Chung, MD, FACC, FAHA* ; James A. de Lemos, MD, FACC* ; Deborah B. Diercks, MD, MSc#; James C. Fang, MD, FACC, FAHA* ; Barry A. Franklin, PhD, FAHA ; Christopher B. Granger, MD, FACC, FAHA* ; Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM, FACC, FAHA* ; Jane A. Linderbaum, MS, CNP-BC ; David A. Morrow, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA* ; L. Kristin Newby, MD, MHS, FACC, FAHA* ; Joseph P. Ornato, MD, FACC, FAHA, FACP, FACEP* ; Narith Ou, PharmD ; Martha J. Radford, MD, FACC, FAHA ; Jacqueline E. Tamis-Holland, MD, FACC, FSCAI ; Carl L. Tommaso, MD, FACC, FAHA, MSCAI ; Cynthia M. Tracy, MD, FACC, FAHA ; Y. Joseph Woo, MD, FACC, FAHA ; David X. Zhao, MD, FACC* Table of Contents Preamble 1136 1. 