Prof docs monthly update

16 May 2023

Your monthly digest of professional document developments.

Under development/review ​

• PG07(A) Guideline on pre-anaesthesia consultation and patient preparation (under review)
• PS62(G) Position statement on cultural competence (under review)
• PG52(G) Guideline for transport of critically ill patients (under review)
• PG12(POM) Guideline on smoking as related to the perioperative period (under review)
• 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 chronic pelvic pain (under development)

Pilot stage

• Standards for Anaesthesia and its accompanying Background Paper (ends 31 May 23)
• PG09(G) Guideline on procedural sedation and background paper PG09(G)BP (ends 31 May 23)
• PG13(PM) Guideline on return to pain medicine practice for specialist pain medicine physicians and its accompanying background paper PG13(PM)BP (ends Oct 23)
• 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 (ends Oct 23)

Post pilot review

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

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