Special announcement: Guidelines to the Practice of Anesthesia – Revised Edition 2017

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This issue of the Journal features the 2017 revised edition of the Guidelines to the Practice of Anesthesia as developed and annually updated by the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society (CAS) Committee on Standards and approved by the CAS Board of Directors. The CAS has endorsed Guidelines 1 since their initial development in 1974, and the Journal has published the yearly updates since 2009. They are widely recognized as a valuable clinical resource for anesthesia practitioners both nationally and internationally. Indeed, they are frequently downloaded as free web content and regularly cited in other peer-reviewed articles. For example, between January 2015 and June 2016, there have been 1,802 downloads and 16 publication citations of the Guidelines. …