Do we need other guidelines?
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Our space came into existence by the Big Bang, a huge explosion of the singularity. Nowadays we are living in the middle of the second explosion, explosion of information and guidelines. During our professional lives we are looking for information all the time and the ability to find information quickly and efficiently and to process it correctly is highly appreciated. Guidelines are a form of already preprocessed information. There are clinical practice guidelines on different issues everywhere. More than 2000 medical guidelines (anaesthesiology 11, critical care medicine 3) are currently represented in the National Guidelines Clearinghouse (www.guideline.gov), an American public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. There are plenty of American guidelines concerning anaesthesia and intensive/critical care medicine developed by different societies, respected are for instance American College of Cardiology / American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) 2007 Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation and Care for Non-Cardiac Surgery (2) or AHA Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (3). In Europe there are four common European guidelines of the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA) (e.g. Guidelines for safety and quality in anaesthesia practice in the European Union) (1); then exist guidelines developed by individual national expert societies. Briefly, there is an inflation of guidelines. The situation is even worse because there are not only clinical practice guidelines but also other tools including clinical decision rules and clini-
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تاریخ انتشار 2007