Contents: Societies/Organizations Standards/ Guidelines/ Patient Care Issues Post-op Pain Control Post-op Nausea & Vomiting   Societies/Organizations American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nursing (ASPAN) with links to guidelines, annual meeting information, and on-line continuing education credits. American Society of Anesthesiologists Society of Ambulatory Anesthesia Association of periOperative Registered Nurses Return to Contents Standards/ Guidelines/ Patient Care Issues Defining the Perioperative Physician by Charles McLeskey, MD at the SAMBA site. ASA Standards for Postoperative Care ASPAN Position on minimum staffing for Phase 1 post anesthesia care ASPAN Position Statement on Air Safety in the Perioperative Environment Postoperative Oxygen Therapy...CME credits from APSAN Anesthetic management: Intraoperative consideration of the post op period. ASPAN's Position Statement on Fast Tracking The University of Virginia Anesthesia Department provides this outline of issues on Managing Intrahospital Patient Transport . New concepts in post op care...23 hour admissions vs. 'Recovery Inns' Management of post-discharge complications from SAMBA. Return to Contents Post-op Pain Control See the Virtual Anaesthesia Textbook chapter on postoperative pain control by Aniello De Nicola. The University of Virginia provides this paper on managing pain in the perioperative period. The University of Louisville has their Policies and Procedures for Intraspinal (Intrathecal/Epidural) Analgesia on-line. Society of Ambulatory Anesthesia's (SAMBA) paper on postoperative pain. See also ASPAN's Position Statement on Postoperative Pain Management Return to Contents Post-op Nausea & Vomiting See the Virtual Anaesthesia Textbook's excellent chapter on Post-op Nausea and Vomiting by John Loadsman. Return to Contents    Well, it's not anesthesia related, but here's my Bonsai web site! This site remains under construction... please let me know of links that you think should be included! John Quinn You are visitor number since April 29th 2000. This page is one chapter of many in the Virtual Anaesthesia Textbook. Please direct all comments about the organisation of this chapter, corrections to links, and suggestions for additions to: John Quinn, M.D. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Surgery/Anesthesiology University of South Carolina School of Medicine Richland Memorial Hospital 5 Medical Park Columbia, S.C. 29203 (803) 434-6151 Questions about the Virtual Anaesthesia Textbook project itself should be e-mailed to Chris Thompson.