Guidelines

A collection of recommendations issued by governing agencies, expert panels, and other professional and scientific organizations, readily accessible for clinical decision making. Links with the icon are authored digests featuring succinct tables and algorithms to distill essential information for quick reference.

Airway Management

• Practice Guidelines for Management of Difficult Airway

Anesthesia Equipment and Safety

• Practice Advisory on Anesthetic Care for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Preventing and Managing Operating Room Fires

Malignant Hyperthermia

• Testing for Malignant Hyperthermia Susceptibility
• Preparing for a Patient Malignant Hyperthermia
• Managing a Malignant Hyperthermia Crisis

Obstetric Anesthesia

• Practice Guidelines for Obstetric Anesthesia

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management

• Acute Pain Management in the Perioperative Setting
• Chronic Pain Management
• Practice Advisory on Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity (LAST)
• Practice Guidelines for Sedation and Analgesia by Non-Anesthesiologists
• Prevention, Detection and Management of Respiratory Depression Associated with Neuraxial Opioid Administration
• Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management of Infectious Complications Associated with Neuraxial Techniques
• Recommendations for Education and Training in Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia
• Regional Anesthesia in the Patient Receiving Antithrombotic or Thrombolytic Therapy (Enoxaparin Update) 

Preoperative Considerations

• Preanesthesia Evaluation
• Preoperative Fasting Guidelines
• ACC/AHA Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiac Evaluation
• ACC/AHA Guideline Summary on Preoperative Hypertension

Perioperative Considerations

• Acute Pain Management in the Perioperative Setting
• Brain Function Monitoring
• Minimizing Perioperative Peripheral Neuropathies
• Minimizing Perioperative Visual Loss
• Perioperative Blood Transfusion and Adjuvant Therapies
• Perioperative Management of Patients with Cardiac Implantable Electronic Device (CIED)
• Perioperative Management of Patients with Coronary Artery Stents
• Perioperative Management of Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea
• Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography
• Practice Advisory on Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity (LAST)
• Prevention of Bacterial Endocarditis
• Thromboprophylaxis for Venous Thromboembolism (VTE)

Postoperative Considerations

• Practice Guidelines for Postanesthetic Care

Vascular Access

• ASA guidelines for use of pulmonary artery catheter
• Central Venous Access