Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.
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Links to related guidelines are provided separately:
●(See "Society guideline links: Mitochondrial disorders".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Muscular dystrophy".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Preoperative fasting".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Acute pain management".)
International
●Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM): Clinical practice guidelines on prevention and management of pain, agitation, neuromuscular blockade, and delirium in critically ill pediatric patients with consideration of the ICU environment and early mobility (2022)
Canada
●Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society (CAS): Guidelines to the practice of anesthesia, revised edition (2023)
United States
●American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Clinical report on topical nasal decongestant oxymetazoline – Safety considerations for perioperative pediatric use (2021)
●American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA): Statement on practice recommendations for pediatric anesthesia (2011, amended 2021)
●Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA): Perioperative management of pediatric patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus – Updated recommendations for anesthesiologists (2020)
●SPA: Recommendations for the use of opioids in children during the perioperative period (2019)
●European Society of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Therapy (ESRA)/American Society of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA): Recommendations on local anesthetics and adjuvants dosage in pediatric regional anesthesia (2018)
●AAP: Policy statement on critical elements for the pediatric perioperative anesthesia environment (2015)
●ESRA and ASRA: Practice advisory on controversial topics in pediatric regional anesthesia (2015)
Europe
●European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC): A guideline on pre-operative fasting in children (2022)
●Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (APAGBI), European Society for Paediatric Anaesthesiology (ESPA), and L'Association Des Anesthésistes-Réanimateurs Pédiatriques d'Expression Française (ADARPEF): Consensus statement on clear fluids fasting for elective pediatric general anesthesia (2018)
●European Society of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Therapy (ESRA)/American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA): Recommendations on local anesthetics and adjuvants dosage in pediatric regional anesthesia (2018)
●ESRA and ASRA: Practice advisory on controversial topics in pediatric regional anesthesia (2015)
United Kingdom
●Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (APAGBI) and Difficult Airway Society (DAS): Paediatric difficult airway guidelines
●Royal College of Anaesthesists (RCoA), APAGBI, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI), and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH): Guidance on paediatric imaging under general anaesthetic (2021)
●APAGBI, RCoA, AAGBI, College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland (CAI): Joint professional guidance on the use of general anaesthesia in young children, update (2019)
●APAGBI, European Society for Paediatric Anaesthesiology (ESPA), and L'Association Des Anesthésistes-Réanimateurs Pédiatriques d'Expression Française (ADARPEF): Consensus statement on clear fluids fasting for elective pediatric general anesthesia (2018)
●AAGBI: Guidelines on safer pre-hospital anaesthesia (2017)
●RCoA, APAGBI, and RCPCH: Guidance for the administration of codeine and alternative opioid analgesics in children (2013)
Australia–New Zealand
●Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA): Guideline on pre-anaesthesia consultation and patient preparation (2021)
●ANZCA and Society for Paediatric Anaesthesia in New Zealand and Australia (SPANZA): Guideline for the provision of anaesthesia care to children (2020)
Japan
●[In Japanese] Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists (JSA): Guidelines for use of anesthetics and anesthetic-related drugs – Pediatric anesthetics (2019)
