Guidelines

Guideline digests

- ASA guidelines for use of pulmonary artery catheter

- Minimizing perioperative peripheral neuropathies

- Minimizing perioperative visual loss

- 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

- Recommendations for education and training in ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia

Links to guidelines

- AHA/ACC guidelines on preoperative cardiac evaluation

- Antibiotic prophylaxis for endocarditis

- Blood component therapy guidelines

- Brain function monitoring

- Management of the difficult airway

- Perioperative management of the patient with a pacemaker or defibrillator

- Preventing and managing operating room fires

- Regional anesthesia in the anticoagulated patient

- Testing for malignant hyperthermia susceptibility