International Guidelines This publication presents the conclusions of the International Guidelines 2000 Conference on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC). We have achieved a long-term goal: to create valid, widely accepted international resuscitation guidelines based on international science and produced by international resuscitation experts. The Guideli...

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization (WHO) is in the process of updating antenatal care (ANC) guidelines. OBJECTIVES To map the existing clinical practice guidelines related to routine ANC for healthy women and to summarise all practices considered during routine ANC. SEARCH STRATEGY A systematic search in four databases for all clinical practice guidelines published after January 2000....

PURPOSE Increasingly there is a recognized need for the development of high quality, evidenced-based clinical guidelines to assist clinicians and patients in critically important treatment related decision making. We review the different approaches used by leading urological organizations to develop guidelines for the management of clinically localized prostate cancer and their specific recomme...

Practice guidelines, intended for use by physicians, suggest preferable approaches to the diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventative aspects of care. These guidelines are intended to be flexible, in contrast with “standards of care,” which are inflexible policies to be followed in almost every case.1 They are developed in a manner consistent with the American Gastroenterological Associations’ Po...

In South Korea, as in many other countries, propofol sedation is performed by practitioners across a broad range of specialties in our country. However, this has led to significant variation in propofol sedation practices, as shown in a series of reports by the Korean Society of Anesthesiologists (KSA). This has led the KSA to develop a set of evidence-based practical guidelines for propofol se...

P RACTICE Guidelines are systematically developed recommendations that assist the practitioner and patient in making decisions about health care. These recommendations may be adopted, modified, or rejected according to clinical needs and constraints and are not intended to replace local institutional policies. In addition, Practice Guidelines developed by the American Society of Anesthesiologis...