Prof docs monthly update

09 November 2023

Your monthly digest of professional document developments.

Under development/review ​

• PG46(POM) Guideline on training and practice of perioperative cardiac ultrasound in adults (under review)
• New guideline on perioperative anaphylaxis management (under development)
• PG52(G) Guideline for transport of critically ill patients (under review)
• PS55(A) Minimum safe facilities – New appendix focussed on non-airway burns/fires in the operating room
• PS45(G) Position statement on patients' rights to pain management and associated responsibilities (under review) 
• (PM) Position statement on off-label use of medicines (under review)
• (PM) Position statement on persistent pelvic pain (under development)

Pilot ​stage

• PG07(A) Guideline on pre-anaesthesia consultation and patient preparation and background paper PG07(A)BP (ends April 2024)
• PS62(G) Position statement on cultural competence and background paper PS62(G)BP (ends April 2024)

Post pilot review

• PG09(G) Guideline on procedural sedation and background paper PG09(G)BP 
• PG13(PM) Guideline on return to pain medicine practice for specialist pain medicine physicians and its accompanying background paper PG13(PM)BP 
• PS14(PM) Statement on the responsibility of specialist pain medicine physicians for overall opioid management in patients with chronic non-cancer pain who have an intrathecal opioid delivery device in situ 

Final version

• PS41(G) Position statement on acute pain management and background paper PS41(G)BP  

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