Guidelines

Guideline digests

• ACC/AHA Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiac Evaluation
• ASA guidelines for use of pulmonary artery catheter
• Digest Practice Guidelines for Regional Anesthesia in the Patient Receiving Antithrombotic or Thrombolytic Therapy: American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine Evidence-Based Guidelines
• Minimizing perioperative peripheral neuropathies
• Minimizing perioperative visual loss
• Perioperative blood transfusion and adjuvant therapies
• Perioperative management of the patient with sleep apnea
• Practice Advisory on Anesthetic Care for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Practice guidelines for sedation and analgesia by non-anesthesiologists: an updated report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Sedation and Analgesia by Non-Anesthesiologists
• Preoperative fasting guidelines
• Prevention of bacterial endocarditis
• Recommendations for education and training in ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia
• Thromboprophylaxis for Venous Thromboembolism (VTE)

Links to guidelines

• Acute Pain Management in the Perioperative Setting
• Brain function monitoring
• Cancer Pain Management
• Central Venous Access
• Chronic Pain Management 
• Management of the difficult airway
• Obstetric Anesthesia
• Perioperative Management of Patients with Coronary Artery Stents
• Perioperative management of the patient with a pacemaker or defibrillator
• Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography
• Postanesthetic Care
• Preanesthesia Evaluation
• Preventing and managing operating room fires
• Prevention, Detection and Management of Respiratory Depression Associated with Neuraxial Opioid Administration
• Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management of Infectious Complications Associated with Neuraxial Techniques
• Testing for malignant hyperthermia susceptibility