Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Nonprocedural sedation" and "Society guideline links: Procedural sedation in children".)

International

●International Committee for the Advancement of Procedural Sedation (ICAPS): Guidelines – An international multidisciplinary consensus statement on fasting before procedural sedation in adults and children (2020)

Canada

●Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society (CAS): A position paper on procedural sedation (2018)

United States

●American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP): Unscheduled procedural sedation − A multidisciplinary consensus practice guideline (2018)

●American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE): Guidelines for sedation and anesthesia in GI endoscopy (2018)

●American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA): Position on monitored anesthesia care (2005, amended 2018)

●ASA, American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS), American College of Radiology (ACR), American Dental Association (ADA), American Society of Dentist Anesthesiologists (ASDA), and Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR): Practice guidelines for moderate procedural sedation and analgesia (2018)

●ACR-SIR: Practice parameter for sedation/analgesia (2015)

●ACEP: Clinical policy − Procedural sedation and analgesia in the emergency department (2014)

●ASA: Continuum of depth of sedation – Definition of general anesthesia and levels of sedation/analgesia (1999, amended 2014)

●ASA: Statement on respiratory monitoring during endoscopic procedures (2014)

●American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), American College of Gastroenterology (ACG), American Gastroenterological Association Institute (AGA), ASGE, Society for Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates (SGNA): Multisociety sedation curriculum for gastrointestinal endoscopy (2012)

●ASA: Current guidelines for procedural sedation in the emergency department (2010)

Europe

●European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA) and European Board of Anaesthesiology (EBA): Guidelines for procedural sedation and analgesia in adults (2018)

●European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE), European Society of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Nurses and Associates (ESGENA): Guideline for non-anesthesiologist administration of propofol for gastrointestinal endoscopy, updated (2015)

●European position paper on drug-induced sedation endoscopy (DISE) (2014)

United Kingdom

●Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI): Recommendations for standards of monitoring during anaesthesia and recovery (2021)

●Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM): Best practice guideline on pharmacological agents for procedural sedation and analgesia in the emergency department (revised 2020)

●Royal College of Radiology (RCR): Sedation, analgesia, and anaesthesia in the radiology department, 2nd edition (2018)

●Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AOMRC): Guideline on safe sedation practice for healthcare procedures (2014)

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Clinical guideline on sedation in under 19s − Using sedation for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures (2010)

Australia-New Zealand

●Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA): Guidelines on monitoring during anaesthesia (2017)

●ANZCA: Guidelines on sedation and/or analgesia for diagnostic and interventional medical, dental or surgical procedures (2014)