Books and Publications

A number of publications relating to the practice of anaesthesia, pain medicine and intensive care are available on this site.   ANZCA Fellows and Trainees can also access a greater range of titles through the ANZCA Library.

• ACHS Clinical Indicators  ( 374 kB)
• Australasian Anaesthesia 2009
  To view the "Fire in the OR" video click here.
• Australasian Anaesthesia 2007
• Australasian Anaesthesia 2005
• Australasian Anaesthesia 2003
  
• ANZCA Code of Professional Conduct ( 146 kB)
• Day Surgery in Australia (  370 kB)
• Obstetric Anaesthesia: Scientific Evidence
• What is an Epidural?
• WPI 14 - Position Statement on the Provision of Obstetric Anaesthesia and Analgesia Services ( 435kB)

Mortality Reports

• Anaesthetic Mortality in Australia 1991-1993
• Anaesthesia Related Mortality in Australia 1994-1996
• A Review of Anaesthesia Related Mortality 1997-1999
• Safety of Anaesthesia in Australia: A Review of anaesthesia-related Mortality 2000-2002 ( 629 kB)
  
• Addendum 2000-2002 Report ( 12kB)
• Safety of Anaesthesia in Australia: A review of anesthesia-related mortality reporting in Australia and New Zealand 2003-2005

 Acute Pain Management

• Acute Pain Management: Scientific Evidence (3rd Edition 2010) ( 3.45 MB). Edited by Pamela E Macintyre, David A Scott, Stephan A Schug, Eric j Visser, Suellen M Walker.  Hard copies of the publication will be circulated to all ANZCA and FPM Fellows and Trainees in due course.  Additional hard copies will be available for order through the Faculty of Pain Medicine.
  
  Chapters of the third edition can be viewed separately.
  Foreward, Introduction and Contents
  Summary of key messages
  1. Physiology and psychology of acute pain
  2. Assessment and management of pain and its treatment
  3 Provision of safe and effective acute pain management
  4. Systemically administered analgesic drugs
  5. Regionally and locally administered analgesic drugs
  6. Administration of systemic analgesic drugs 
  7. PCA, regional and other local analgesia techniques
  8. Non-pharmacological techniques
  9. Specific clinical situations 
  10. The paediatric patient
  11. Other specific patient groups 
  Appendicies
  Abbreviations and Index
  
   
  
   

• Managing Acute Pain: A guide for patients (2005) ( 763 kB). This booklet was derived from the document Acute Pain Management: Scientific Evidence (Second Edition), which was developed by the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and the Faculty of Pain Medicine. This document aims to help health professionals work with patients to manage acute pain effectively and safely.
  
  Hard copies can be purchased (in multiples of 50) using the Order Form ( 1.3 MB)

• APAGABI - Good Practice in Procedural and Postoperative Pain
  

Fellows’ attention is drawn to the Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland document “Good Practice in Procedural and Postoperative Pain”.  The document can be viewed at:
www.apagbi.or.uk/docs/APA_Guidelines_on_Pain_Management.pdf

Appendix: www.apagbi.or.uk/docs/APA_Guidelines_on_Pain_Management_Appendix.pdf

 A FPMANZCA Fellow, Dr Suellen Walker, was a member of the APAGBI Acute Pain Guideline Working Party, which also included representatives from the Royal College of Nursing (UK), Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, British Pain Society, British Association of Paediatric Surgeons and the Patient Liaison Group of the Royal College of Anaesthetists.  The document has been ratified by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and endorsed by the British Pain Society and the Royal College of Nursing.  The document will be referenced in the upcoming Third Edition of the ANZCA/FPM Acute Pain Medicine: Scientific Evidence document.

Welfare of Anaesthetists SIG resource documents