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Standards and Guidelines

Improve decision-making and promote quality outcomes with evidence-based guidance for your anesthesiology practice.

Standards

These standards apply to anesthesia care and basic monitoring and are intended to encourage quality patient care.

Practice Guidelines

These practice guidelines are evidence-based and developed using a rigorous process that combines scientific and consensus-based evidence.

Advisories & Alerts

The practice parameters provide guidance in the form of requirements, recommendations or other information to improve decision-making and promote quality outcomes for the practice of anesthesiology.

Statements

Tap into the expertise of ASA by reviewing these opinions, beliefs and medical judgments developed by the committee members.

Expert Consensus Documents

These include policies, positions, principles, suggestions, and definitions to promote the practice of anesthesiology.