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Guidelines Repository for Neurosurgery

The AANS developed an Online Guidelines Repository for Neurosurgery to facilitate the search for guidelines related to neurosurgical practice. This web site area at times posts the full guideline, but generally provides a link to the organization that publishes the information. Inclusion on this web site does not constitute a guarantee, approval or endorsement of these guidelines by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. Requests for more information will need to be directed to the guideline's publisher.

The online repository will change periodically to reflect the advances in guideline development, but is not a complete listing. If you know of a guideline that you feel is appropriate for posting in this area, please submit your request or recommendation to the AANS at memberservices@aans.org.

Guideline	Copyright Date	Publisher	File or Link
Guidelines for the Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury	2007	A joint project of AANS & the Brain Trauma Foundation	PDF
Guidelines for the Management of Acute Cervical Spine and Spinal Cord Injuries	2001	Developed under the auspices of and with the support of the Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves of the AANS/CNS; published on Spine Universe	PDF
Guidelines for Field Management of Combat-Related Head Trauma	2006	Brain Trauma Foundation Register on site to view	http://www.braintrauma.org/site/ DocServer/btf_field_management _guidelines.pdf?docID=121
Guidelines for Prehospital Management of Traumatic Brain Injury, Second Edition	2007	Brain Trauma Foundation Register on site to view	https://www.braintrauma.org/pdf/Prehospital_ Guidelines_2nd_Edition.pdf
Guidelines for Prehospital Management of Traumatic Brain Injury, Third Edition	2007	Brain Trauma Foundation Register on site to view	https://www.braintrauma.org/pdf/protected/ Guidelines_Management_2007w_bookmarks.pdf
Guidelines for the Surgical Management of Traumatic Brain Injury	2006	The Guidelines were published as a supplement to Neurosurgery, March 2006	https://www.braintrauma.org/pdf/protected/ Surgical_Guidelines_article_2.pdf
Guidelines for the Field Management of Combat Related Head Trauma	2006	The Guidelines were published as a supplement to Neurosurgery, March 2006	https://www.braintrauma.org/pdf/protected/ btf_field_management_guidelines.pdf
Guidelines for Acute Medical Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Infants, Children, and Adolescents. Second Edition	2012	A Supplement to Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Register on the Brain Trauma Foundation site to view	http://www.braintrauma.org/pdf/ guidelines_pediatric2.pdf
The AANS/CNS Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves Lumbar Fusion Guidelines - An Evidenced-Based Approach to Lumbar Fusion	2006	AANS/CNS Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves	http://www.spinesection.org/?id=3
Society of Critical Care guidelines		Society of Critical Care Medicine	http://sccmwww.sccm.org/ professional_resources/guidelines /table_of_contents/index.asp
American Pain Society guidelines		American Pain Society	http://www.ampainsoc.org/ pub/cp_guidelines.htm