These guidelines seek to improve postanesthesia care outcomes for patients who have just had anesthesia or sedation and analgesia care. They focus on the perioperative management of patients with the goal of improving postanesthesia quality of life, reducing postoperative adverse events, providing a uniform assessment of recovery, and streamlining postoperative care and discharge criteria. The guidelines were published in the March 2002 issue of Anesthesiology.
This update includes data published since the Practice Guidelines for Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography were adopted by the ASA and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists...
