Revised Edition 2025
As recommended by the Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

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full 2025 Guidelines to the Practice of Anesthesia
 

Appendix 1: Canadian Standards Association—Standards for Equipment

Appendix 2: American Society of Anesthesiologists' Classification of Physical Status

Appendix 3: Pre-Anesthetic Checklist

Appendix 4: Guidelines, Standards, and Other Official Statements 

Appendix 5: Position Paper on Anesthesia Assistants: An Official Position Paper of the Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

Appendix 6: Procedural Sedation: A Position Paper of the Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

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Other documents

Peri-Operative Status of “Do Not Resuscitate” (DNR)* Orders and Other Directives that Limit Interventions (November 2019)
 

CAS Standards Committee Query Responses (compiled June 2015)

Canadian Cardiovascular Society/Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society/Canadian Heart Rhythm Society Joint Position Statement on the Perioperative Management of Patients With Implanted Pacemakers, Defibrillators, and Neurostimulating Devices (April 2012)

Guidelines on the Ethics of Clinical Research in Anesthesia (2011 Edition)

Guidlines to the Practice of Anesthesia (2006 Edition)
The 2006 Guidelines mark a pivotal moment in the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society's recognition and formalization of the role of anesthesia assistants, following years of deliberation and advocacy.