Guidelines

The SSAI Clinical Practice Committee is devoted to develop, endorse and publish clinical practice guidelines to be used by Scandinavian anaesthesiologists and intensivists.

The GRADE methodology is used in preparing these guidelines and an outline of the work flow for preparing SSAI guidelines can be found here along with instructions on how the SSAI endorses non-SSAI clinical practice guidelines:

SSAI clinical practice guidelines (pdf)

Endorsement of non-SSAI clinical practice guidelines (pdf)

SSAI guidelines

Area	Topic	Guideline	MAGIC	Year
Intensive care	Circulatory failure	New-onset atrial fibrillation in critically ill adult patients—anSSAI clinical practice guideline	MAGIC	2023
Intensive care	Circulatory failure	Scandinavian SSAI clinical practice guideline on choice of inotropic agent for patients with acute circulatory failure		2018
Intensive care	Circulatory failure	CCCS-SSAI WikiRecs clinical practice guideline: vasopressor blood pressure targets in critically ill adults with hypotension and vasopressor use in early traumatic shock		2017
Intensive care	Circulatory failure	CCCS-SSAI WikiRecs Clinical Practice Guideline: vasopressors in early traumatic shock		2017
Intensive care	Circulatory failure	CCCS-SSAI WikiRecs Clinical Practice Guideline: vasopressor blood pressure targets in critically ill adults with hypotension		2017
Intensive care	Circulatory failure	Scandinavian SSAI clinical practice guideline on choice of first-line vasopressor for patients with acute circulatory failure		2016
Prehospital care	Airway management	Scandinavian SSAI clinical practice guideline on pre-hospital airway management		2016
Intensive care	Respiratory failure	Scandinavian clinical practice guideline on fluid and drug therapy in adults with acute respiratory distress syndrome	MAGIC	2016
Intensive care	Circulatory failure	Scandinavian clinical practice guideline on choice of fluid in resuscitation of critically ill patients with acute circulatory failure	MAGIC	2015
Intensive care	Respiratory failure	Scandinavian clinical practice guideline on mechanical ventilation in adults with the acute respiratory distress syndrome	MAGIC	2015

Abbreviations:

CCCS-SSAI: Canadian Critical Care Society – Scandinavian Society of Critical Care. These jointly developed guidelines form part of the MAGIC WikiRec project
SSAI CPG: SSAI clinical practice guideline
MAGIC: “Making GRADE the Irresistible Choice”, a project and platform for guideline development and rapid dissemination. More info here. Where applicable the table has a link to the MAGICapp page with the guideline and grading

Endorsed guidelines

Area	Topic	Endorsement	Original guideline	MAGIC	Year
Intensive care	Venous thromboembolism in COVID19	SSAI endorsement	ISTH guidelines for antithrombotic treatment in COVID-19		2023
Intensive care	Venous thromboembolism in trauma	SSAI endorsement	Saudi Critical Care Society clinical practice guidelines on the prevention of venous thromboembolism in adults with trauma: reviewed for evidence-based integrity and endorsed by the Scandinavian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine		2023
Anaesthesia	Regional anaesthesia	SSAI endorsement	Regional anaesthesia in patients on antithrombotic drugs – Joint ESAIC/ESRA guidelines		2022
Intensive care	Bleeding	SSAI endorsement	Transfusion strategies in bleeding critically ill adults: a clinical practice guideline from the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine		2022
Intensive care	COVID-19	SSAI endorsement	A living WHO guideline on drugs for covid-19	MAGIC	2022
Intensive care	Sepsis in adults	SSAI endorsement	Surviving sepsis campaign: international guidelines for management of sepsis and septic shock 2021		2022
Intensive care	Sepsis in children	SSAI endorsement	Surviving Sepsis Campaign International Guidelines for the Management of Septic Shock and Sepsis-Associated Organ Dysfunction in Children		2021
Prehospital care	Trauma	SSAI endorsement	New clinical guidelines on the spinal stabilisation of adult trauma patients – consensus and evidence based		2021
Intensive care	Stress ulcer prophylaxis	SSAI endorsement	Gastrointestinal bleeding prophylaxis for critically ill patients: a clinical practice guideline	MAGIC	2020
Intensive care	Rhabdomyolysis	SSAI endorsement	Prevention of rhabdomyolysis‐induced acute kidney injury – A DASAIM/DSIT clinical practice guideline		2019
Anaesthesia	Lumbar puncture	SSAI endorsement	Atraumatic (pencil-point) versus conventional needles for lumbar puncture: a clinical practice guideline	MAGIC	2019