Standards & Guidelines

Standards & Guidelines

The Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists has issued several guidelines in Japanese.
English versions are available for the guidelines highlighted in Italic.

List of guidelines:
  • Education (2022)
  • Anesthetic management of bone marrow donors (2020)
  • Monitoring during anesthesia (2019)
  • Ethical requirements for conducting and reporting clinical research (2018)
  • Management of obstetric massive bleeding (2017)
  • Regional anesthesia and nerve blocks in patients receiving antithrombotic therapy (2017)
  • Checkout procedures of anesthesia apparatus (2016)
  • Apnea test for determination of brain death (2015)
  • Pain management of neonates in the NICU (2014)
  • Preoperative fasting (2012)
  • Anesthetic management of patients undergoing waking craniotomy (2012)
  • Organ transplantation after brain death (2011)
  • Dental anesthesia training for dentists (2008)
  • Management of patients who refuse blood transfusion for religious reasons (2008)
  • Management of massive bleeding (2007)
  • Protection of patient privacy (2004)
  • Anesthesia for day case surgery (1999)