Updated Guidelines

ACC/AHA & PONV

Updated Consensus Guidelines for PONV were published in Anesthesia and Analgesia in January. You can download the article below.

Download PONV Guidelines

Also hot off the press are the 2014 ACC/AHA Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation and Management of Patients Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery. You can download the 100+ pages of the full article and the executive summary below.

Download ACC AHA Guidelines

Download ACC AHA Summary

ANZCA Safety Alerts

ANZCA publishes safety alerts on their website at http://www.anzca.edu.au/fellows/quality-safety/safety-alerts

Starch solutions

NZ review of safety, basically existing restrictions are appropriate. More info…

Here is the Anesthesia and Analgesia article by Van der LInden evaluating its safety in surgery.

Safety of Starches pdf

Propofol contamination

Restrictions have been lifted, more info…