Acute Anaphylaxis Clinical Care Standard
Developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare and endorsed by ANZCA.
Note: this Standard covers management of anaphylaxis outside the operating theatre or intensive care unit (ICU). For management of anaphylaxis inside theatre or ICU, please refer to ANZAAG Anaphylaxis Management Guidelines.
Advisory statement on the storage of propofol in clinical settings
Jointly developed with the Health Quality and Safety Commission New Zealand and the Ministry of Health.
Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Care Standard
Developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare and endorsed by ANZCA.
ANZAAG and ANZCA Perioperative Anaphylaxis Management Guidelines
Management and diagnosis cards jointly developed with ANZCA.
Australian open disclosure framework
Developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.
Best practice guide for continuous practice improvement
Developed by the Council of Medical Colleges of New Zealand.
Call for Australia's ratification of the OPCAT
Supported by ANZCA.
Central line insertion and maintenance guideline
Developed by the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society.
Colonoscopy clinical care standard
Developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. Under review in 2024, new edition TBA.
Delirium clinical care standard
Developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.
Epidural anaesthesia
Joint statement by the ANZCA President Dr Vanessa Beavis and RANZCOG President Dr Vijay Roach.
Factsheet: Identification of neural route medicines, fluids and lines
Developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.
Guideline for providers of liposuction (Victoria)
Developed by the Victorian Department of Health.
Guidelines for the management of postoperative nausea and vomiting
Developed by the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia.
A joint statement supporting user-applied labelling standardisation for all injectable medicines and fluids
Joint statement of ANZCA and the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.
Low back pain clinical care standard
Developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, and endorsed by the Faculty of Pain Medicine.
Malignant hyperthermia resource kit
Developed by Malignant Hyperthermia Australia and New Zealand.
Management of Peripheral Intravenous Catheters Clinical Care Standard
Developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.
National standard for user-applied labelling of injectable medicines, fluids and lines
Developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.
Neural connector devices to reduce misconnection errors – advice for every anaesthetist and pain medicine practitioner
Developed by ANZCA.
Neural connector devices to reduce misconnection errors – guidelines for implementation in Australia
Jointly developed with the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.
OSSIE guide to clinical handover improvement
Developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.
Osteoarthritis of the knee clinical care standard
Developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.
Patient blood management guidelines
Developed by the National Blood Authority.
Perioperative anaphylaxis management guidelines
Jointly developed with the Australian and New Zealand Anaesthetic Allergy Group.
Perioperative Diabetes and Hyperglycaemia Guidelines (Adults)
Jointly developed with the Australian Diabetes Association.
Periprocedural Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) with SGLT2 Inhibitor Use in People with Diabetes
Jointly developed with the Australian Diabetes Association.
Periprocedural GLP-1 use consensus - clinical guide
ANZCA, along with peak diabetes, obesity and gastroenterological bodies, has produced clinical practice recommendations for patients using GLP-1/GIP receptor agonists.
Position paper on day surgery in Australia
Jointly developed with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons.
Reusable surgical gowns position statement
Developed by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.
Sepsis Clinical Care Standard
Developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.
Standards for resuscitation: clinical practice and education
Jointly developed by the Australian Resuscitation Council and the New Zealand Resuscitation Council.
Position statement on the provision of obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia services
Jointly developed with Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
Trauma Verification Program Model Resource Criteria
Developed by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Trauma Verification Committee.
Topical application of chlorhexidine and risks of accidental injection in regional anaesthesia and vascular access procedures
Jointly developed with the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.
Explore our other standards of practice
Our professional documents (prof docs), statements and guidelines are crucial for promoting the safety and quality of patient care for those undergoing anaesthesia for surgical and other procedures and for those receiving pain medicine treatment.
These statements undergo a deliberative process within the college committee structure and require approval by the oversight committee, or the ANZCA Council, prior to publication.
The Standards for Anaesthesia and its accompanying background paper are intended to apply to all those in clinical practice within the specialty of anaesthesia wherever anaesthesia services are provided. The aim is for these standards to be used as benchmarks to foster quality in patient care as well as to facilitate quality improvement.
We're responsible for setting the standards of clinical practice for pain medicine in Australia and New Zealand. Our activities in this area include developing professional documents, issuing safety alerts; and overseeing incident reporting activities.
The Standards for Perioperative Medicine have been released for a six-month pilot period ending in June 2024. These standards are intended to apply to all medical practitioners whose practice falls within the scope of perioperative medicine. The purpose of these standards is to articulate standards and associated indicators of quality care against which performance can be compared.
We oversee a range of incident reporting activities in Australia and New Zealand, including mortality reporting and webAIRS, to ensure that we continue to be two of the safest countries in the world to undergo anaesthesia.
These management and diagnosis cards have been jointly produced by ANZCA and the Australian and New Zealand Anaesthetic Allergy Group (ANZAAG). They are designed to be used as a crisis management package in the event of an acute perioperative anaphylaxis.
The Perioperative Care Framework was developed by the Perioperative Care Working Group approved by ANZCA Council in December 2021, and updated in December 2023.
Important information about the introduction of neural devices with connectors compliant with the new international standard ISO 80369-6.
To assist fellows and trainees, the college has also developed a framework for understanding professionalism and performance as it applies to the practice of anaesthesia and pain medicine: Supporting professionalism and performance – A guide for anaesthetists and pain medicine physicians.