title: Recommendations for standards of monitoring during anaesthesia and recovery 2015: Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland.
abstract: This guideline updates and replaces the 4th edition of the AAGBI Standards of Monitoring published in 2007. The aim of this document is to provide guidance on the minimum standards for physiological monitoring of any patient undergoing anaesthesia or sedation under the care of an anaesthetist. The recommendations are primarily aimed at anaesthetists practising in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Minimum standards for monitoring patients during anaesthesia and in the recovery phase are included. There is also guidance on monitoring patients undergoing sedation and also during transfer of anaesthetised or sedated patients. There are new sections discussing the role of monitoring depth of anaesthesia, neuromuscular blockade and cardiac output. The indications for end-tidal carbon dioxide monitoring have been updated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia, Dundee, UK.|AAGBI.
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Checketts
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia, Tameside Hospital, Ashton-under-Lyne, UK.|Royal College of Anaesthetists.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Alladi
authors.affiliation: Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, UK.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ferguson
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia, North Wales Trust, North Wales, UK.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gemmell
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Handy
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK.
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Klein
authors.affiliation: AAGBI.|Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, North Devon District Hospital, Barnstaple, Devon, UK.
authors.forename: N J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Love
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia, Sunderland Royal Hospital, Sunderland, UK.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Misra
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Royal Derby Hospital, Derby, UK.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Morris
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia, Nottingham University Hospitals, Nottingham, UK.
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Nathanson
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, UK.
authors.forename: G E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Rodney
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia, Derby Teaching Hospitals, Derby, UK.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Verma
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia, Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Pandit
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia; D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000295:instrumentation; D002302:Cardiac Output; D006801:Humans; D007494:Ireland; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000592:standards*; D061886:Neuromuscular Monitoring; D012955:Societies, Medical; D006113:United Kingdom