Special announcement: Guidelines to the practice of anesthesia—Revised edition 2010

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The first Minimum Guidelines for the Standards of Practice of Anaesthesia (the Guidelines) was approved by the Council of the Canadian Anaesthetists’ Society (the Society) on January 17, 1975 and published in booklet form in 1977. Several concurrent events drove the formulation of the Guidelines.1 The development of standards on “Anesthesia Services” by the Canadian Council on Hospital Accreditation (now Accreditation Canada) was an initial cause of concern in anesthesia circles, since it was perceived as an encroachment on “areas of responsibility”. At about the same time, there were two unfortunate deaths under anesthesia that prompted the Canadian Medical Protective Association to consult with the Society and to advise them to propose minimum standards of anesthesia practice. …