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Practice Advisory for Intraoperative Awareness and Brain Function Monitoring
(30503-4PA-4PA)

Intraoperative awareness under general anesthesia is a rare occurrence, with a reported incidence of 0.1-0.2 percent. The purposes of this advisory are to identify risk factors, provide...

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Practice Advisory for Perioperative Visual Loss Associated with Spine Surgery
(30503-5PA-5PA)

The purposes of this advisory are to enhance awareness of permanent impairment or total loss of sight associated with a spine procedure during which general anesthesia is administered and to...

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Practice Advisory for Preanesthesia Evaluation
(30503-2PA-2PA)

This practice advisory was written by the ASA Task Force on Preanesthesia Evaluation and was approved by the House of Delegates on October 17, 2001, and amended on October 15, 2003. This...

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Practice Advisory for the Perioperative Management of Patients with Cardiac Rhythm Management Devices: Pacemakers and Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators
(30503-3PA-3pa)

Focuses on the perioperative management of patients with pre-existing, permanently implanted cardiac rhythm devices for treatment of bradyarrhythmia, tachyarrhythmia or heart failure. These...

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Practice Advisory for the Prevention and Management of Operating Room Fires
(30503-6PA-6PA)

This practice advisory was written by the ASA Task Force on Operating Room Fires and was approved by the House of Delegates on October 17, 2007. The purposes of this advisory are to...

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Practice Advisory for the Prevention of Perioperative Peripheral Neuropathies
(30503-1PA-1PA)

Written by a special task force of ASA and adopted by the ASA House of Delegates in October 1999, this practice advisory was developed to reduce the frequency or minimize the severity of...

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Practice Guidelines for Acute Pain Management in the Perioperative Setting
(30503-1PP-1PP)

The purpose of these guidelines, which were published in the journal Anesthesiology in April 1995 and amended by the House of Delegates on October 15, 2003, is to facilitate the efficacy and...

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Practice Guidelines for Cancer Pain Management
(30503-3PP-3pp)

Published in Anesthesiology in May 1996, these guidelines provide evidence-based information to optimize pain control; minimize side effects, adverse outcomes and costs; enhance functional...

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Practice Guidelines for Chronic Pain Management
(30503-4PP-4pp)

These guidelines, published in April 1997 in Anesthesiology, focus on the knowledge base, skills and range of interventions that are the essential elements of effective management of chronic...

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Practice Guidelines for Management of the Difficult Airway
(30503-5PP-5pp)

The purpose of these guidelines, which were first published in Anesthesiology in March 1993 and revised in 2002, is to facilitate the management of the difficult airway and to reduce the...

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